How to Use bluebird in a Sentence

bluebird

noun
  • Rayner said a park ranger told her that this year there are now more bluebirds than ever.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Could different backyard birds, such as a robin and a bluebird, produce viable offspring?
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • The bluebird flies to the fence, closer to us now, perched there.
    Melanie Fonder Kaye, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2020
  • One day in art class, we were told to draw a picture of a bluebird the nuns put up.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 20 July 2021
  • The world speaks to us in symbols: bluebirds, nopal plants, pronghorn, zombies.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • More bluebirds are singing their song from the nests of Camden County.
    Barbara Boyer, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Five dozen nest boxes for bluebirds line the Haller route, helping give flight to more than 300 fledglings a year.
    Rick Montgomery, kansascity.com, 12 May 2017
  • Nothing speaks more to spring happiness than the sight of a bluebird.
    Cori Brown, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Many others have found dead bluebird chicks trapped in the nest box by string or hanging from a box by a leg.
    Jennifer J. Meyer, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The result was a powder as brilliant as a bluebird’s wing.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • The dirt landing strip, stark and rust-colored under a bluebird sky.
    Jacqueline Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2022
  • As for the sparrows, the male will kill young bluebirds and eat their eggs, and can sneak into a bluebird nesting box.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024
  • My hand was forced when a bluebird, flying from the feeder, banged into the window.
    Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Living, juicy mealworms are known to be a top choice for bluebirds feeding their young as well.
    Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Hence, their analysis is a lot more sober than the often bluebird forecasts from the Wall Street sell-side.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2020
  • The derby arrived on a bluebird day — 80 degrees and sunny with just a whisper of a breeze.
    Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 19 June 2018
  • Shares of bluebird have fallen in recent months, with the stock losing more than 46 percent of its value in the past year.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Birds such as lazuli buntings and mountain bluebirds feast on the insects attracted to the flowers.
    Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
  • Nothing beats a bluebird day when parts of Mulcahy are backdropped by the Chugach Mountains.
    Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2021
  • The second piece, a bluebird amulet, is a nod to the animal which has been a symbol of the women’s suffrage movement since the early 1900s.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The bees and butterflies and dragonflies and bluebirds that make a prairie ecosystem return with a vengeance.
    Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • In another, a Becorn stands on a branch holding a bluebird feather.
    Denise Coffey, courant.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Half an hour later, a bluebird painting on an easel appeared.
    Bryce Airgood, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • Park saw Westerns and James Bond movies and filled in the colors in his mind—spacious bluebird skies and rolling green hills of prairie grass, the scarlet flower pinned to Bond’s black lapel.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But the feathers of the bluebird, the kingfisher and other birds are colored blue due to the dispersion of the light striking minute air cells in the horny structure of the feathers.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • The space has been updated to reflect the colors of the birds seen around Central Park, including bluebirds.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
  • If there are bluebird skies and the water is choppy, try throwing a spinnerbait.
    Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 9 May 2018
  • On calm, bluebird days, motion in your spread can be the difference between firing the gun and watching birds from a distance.
    Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The property has a 10-acre easement and offers frequent sightings this time of year of bluebirds and woodcocks.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • For instance, Western bluebird sons who stay close to home during the winter months are more likely to survive.
    Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022

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