Bluebird
(Adopted 1927)

The gentle Eastern Bluebird is known by its blue back, robin-red breast and rusty throat. Females are duller. Widespread in the east, it is replaced from the Rockies to the Pacific by the Western Bluebird, which has a blue throat. Bluebirds have declined in some areas, but can be helped by bird boxes in which they may nest or spend the night.