bluebird
noun
blue·bird
ˈblü-ˌbərd 
: any of three small North American thrushes (Sialia currucoides, S. mexicana, and S. sialis) that are blue above and reddish brown or pale blue below
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The Pearl Street Mall on Sunday afternoon was so picture perfect — a bluebird sky, Boulder shoppers dipping in and out of brick buildings, children playing in a splash pad — that bystanders didn’t recognize the first flashes of flame as dangerous.
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Temperate songbirds, including cardinals, bluebirds, wrens and blackbirds, have two main categories of vocalizations: songs and calls.
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The bluebird pair arrived and settled in a tiny, ceramic, ornamental birdhouse hanging next to my backdoor.
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Rance Collins, IndieWire, 9 June 2025
The Pearl Street Mall on Sunday afternoon was so picture perfect — a bluebird sky, Boulder shoppers dipping in and out of brick buildings, children playing in a splash pad — that bystanders didn’t recognize the first flashes of flame as dangerous.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 3 June 2025
Temperate songbirds, including cardinals, bluebirds, wrens and blackbirds, have two main categories of vocalizations: songs and calls.
—Sofia Marie Haley, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
The bluebird pair arrived and settled in a tiny, ceramic, ornamental birdhouse hanging next to my backdoor.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2025
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bluebird
noun
blue·bird
-ˌbərd
: any of three small North American songbirds related to the robin but more or less blue above
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