Blue+Birds

__Habitat:__
Blue birds live in open forest edges, natural grasslands, pastures, orchards, and parks.

__Range:__
Blue birds live east of the Rocky Mountains and southern Canada To northern Nicaragua. Also in British Columbia, Mexico, Alaska and western North America.

__Physical Characteristics:__
Blue birds can be up to 6 to 7in. long with black beaks and legs. Males are deep blue feathers on its head with black wings and tail. The throat and breast are a chestnut color. Females are like males but more of a duller plumage.

__Diet:__
The diet of a blue bird is made up as insects, grasshopper, beetles, flies, especially caterpillars and in winter they eat berries.

__Behavior And Adaptations:__
Male blue birds sing and flap its wings to get a mate. Females build nest and incubates the eggs.

__Reproduction:__
They build nest for their young. They lay 3 to 7 eggs and the male brings food to the female while she sits on eggs. The male provides most of the food when the babies are small and then later both the male and female feed the young.

__Relationship To People:__
Some people enjoy watching and feeding blue birds.

__Status/History:__
Blue birds are very common. They are similar to many species of woodpeckers.

__Other Information:__
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__Sources:__
1.Power, Harry W. "blue Birds" World Book 2001 Edition Chicago, IL 2001 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebird