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Eastern Bluebird

Sialia sialis L 7" (18cm)

Photo by Lang Elliott.

Listen to an eastern bluebird.

The eastern bluebird is a medium-sized member of the thrush family. Adults are blue on their heads, backs, and tails, though the female's blue is suffused with gray-brown. Rusty breasts and flanks are offset by white bellies. Fledgling eastern bluebirds have a prominent eye ring and white-speckled breast and back. The song is a rich, warbling turr, turr-lee, turr-lee. Bluebirds also have a tew! call note and a chittering scold call.

This sound file requires RealPlayer. Bird song courtesy of Lang Elliott, NatureSound Studio.

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