bluebird

noun

blue·​bird ˈblü-ˌbərd How to pronounce bluebird (audio)
: 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. 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 Second place went to Rodrigo Baca for a bluebird and flowers. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for bluebird

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First Known Use

1688, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bluebird was in 1688

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“Bluebird.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bluebird. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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bluebird

noun
blue·​bird -ˌbərd How to pronounce bluebird (audio)
: any of three small North American songbirds related to the robin but more or less blue above

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