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Western Bluebirds Are Back

10,000 Birds

From the 1913 USDA Farmers Bulletin #513, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard: “The bluebird is one of the most familiar tenants of the farm and dooryard. This film is condensed from about a three hour fledging experience of Western Bluebirds being coaxed from their nest box.

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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

10,000 Birds

When I see these Islands in sight of each other, & possessed of but a scanty stock of animals, tenanted by these birds but slightly differing in structure & filling the same place in Nature, I must suspect they are only varieties.

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