Front:
REPETERSON
BLUEBIRD
Female Male
Back:
Wildlife Post Card Series
Subject 14
RESTORE
. CONSERVE
BOOTECT CONSE
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WORK LIKE A BEAVER FOR RESTORATION
AMERICA'S
RESOURCES
WILDLIFE
THE BLUEBIRD
old Woodpecker holes or
(Sialia Sialis)
bird boxes. Four or five pale
blue eggs are laid. Boxes for them
In the North, the simple warbled notes should be 5" x 5" x 8" deep, with a hole
of Bluebirds are among the first spring placed above center 1/2" in diameter,
sounds. In the South, they can be heard small enough to keep out the Starlings.
the year around.
The house should be put up on a pole
Blue Jays have white breasts; Indigo about 5' or 6' from the ground, in a
Buntings, blue breasts; Bluebirds, rusty sunny open place.
red breasts. That is the simplest way to The Western Bluebird is very similar
tell this blue trio apart.
but has a chestnut patch in the center of
Bluebirds nest in cavities, in trees, the back.
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Copyright 1939, National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York
