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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. Musselman of Quincy Illinois is generally credited with originating the bluebird conservation movement that extended beyond local boundaries. It was in 1926 that Thomas E.

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