My favorite time of the year has arrived. I am now checking weekly to see if there is any activity at our bluebird nesting box. The box is clean and ready for immediate occupancy. Our nest box is in ...

There they were, bluebird houses on top of many of the fence posts that lined the road just west of Bickleton, the self-proclaimed Bluebird Capital of the World. It’s spring, and thousands of ...

Though it’s too early for Western bluebirds to be nesting, they’ve been recently seen going in and out of area nesting boxes. “During the winter they seem to periodically check out the nesting box ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. What began as one man’s hobby in 1984 has grown to the 200-member ...

Guess what? Recent scientific studies have confirmed that seeing and hearing birds makes people happy! Science is just beginning to back up something we humans have intuitively known for a very long ...