Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eastern bluebirds are not really blue — it's the way light waves interact with their feathers. But they are a part of Michigan's ...

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Beautiful Eastern Bluebird in the Winter Snow Close Up Red White Blue Blurred Background Beak Feathers Blue Song Birds© Joanna Bailey/Shutterstock.com This shift from solitary nesting to shared ...

In 1934 a song called “The Bluebird of Happiness” with lyrics by Edward Heyman hit the airways to popular acclaim. Today, a Chester County woman, Marilyn Michalski of Phoenixville, can lay claim to ...

A pair of eastern bluebirds began building a nest about four weeks ago in one of the two bluebird boxes in our backyard. They’ve nested every spring, going back nine years when my wife and I installed ...

ST. LOUIS — On March 30, 1927, the eastern bluebird was officially designated the Missouri state bird by an act of the Missouri Legislature because it was "common in Missouri" and "a symbol of ...

As I write this column I am feeling quite under the weather. The flu has come to town and it has me in its grip. I haven’t left the house in days and all I want to do is sleep. That being said, I am ...

A male eastern bluebird darts from its perch to the ground to capture an insect. When the light is angled just right, the feathers on the bird's back and tail flash a brilliant blue — so blue, in fact ...

Eastern bluebirds are not really blue — it's the way light waves interact with their feathers. But they are a part of Michigan's natural heritage and now that it's nesting season, they can be spotted ...