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A

Abandoned Boxes (by Humans)
Abandoned Nests Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Airport Island Habitat for Trail

Aggression (during monitoring, mating season, etc.)
Alpha Codes and Names
Albino Bluebirds
Ants Part 1Part 2 | Part 3
Anting
Appeal (Fascination with bluebirds)

Attracting Bluebirds

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Backyard Bluebirding
Banding Bluebirds
Bats
Bears & Bluebirds
Bees (Honey and Bumblebees)-Also see Wasps

Behavior (Bluebird) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Bergmann's Rule
Bewick's Wren
Big Trails
Binoculars
Bird Counts & Bluebirds
Birdbaths & Bluebirds
Bird Flu (avian)

Birds & Blooms Magazine
Blowflies Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Bluebirders  &  Pictures of Bluebirders
Bluebirds & Blue Jays
Bluebirds and the Law
Bluebirds Common, Rare, Endangered, or Threatened?
Bluebird Nut, You Know You're A Bluebird Nut :)
Books - Old or Out of Print Bluebird Books & References Part 1 Part 2
Broods per Year Part 1 | Part 2

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Calls & Songs
Cats Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Carolina Wrens
Cedar - See Nestboxes, Cedar
Cell or Communication Towers
Cemetery Nestbox Trails
Certification of Trails
Chats, Bluebird
Chickadees Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7
Chimney and Stovepipe Hazards, Chimney Swifts
Chimney Swifts
Chipmunks as Predators
Christmas Bird Counts and Bluebirds
Cicadas in Nestboxes
Claim Straws Part 1 | Part 2
Cleaning Out Old Nests Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Clean Nests? or Abandoned
Bluebirds Conditioned?
Color - unusual coloration or markings
Competition between cavity-nesters
Conferences/Festivals Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Conservation
Consideration and Responsibilities (Netiquette) on Bluebird-L Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Cowbirds Part 1 | Part 2
Crows

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Data Logger Boxes
Dead Adult Bluebirds (cause)
Dead Nestlings

Dead Tree Swallows
Diatomaceous Earth (DE)
Diet (What Bluebirds Eat) Part 1
| Part 2
Distractions at the Nestbox
Distribution of Bluebirds (U.S. and other countries)
Dogs on the Bluebird Trail

Earwigs in Nestboxes
Education & Presentation Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Ellis Bird Farm

Eggs:

Clutch Size
Dumping
First Nests/Eggs of the Season 2000 2001 | 2002 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006
Incubation
Miscellaneous Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
White

Electric Fences & Birds
Emotions and Anthropomorphizing
Ethics
Eurasian Tree Sparrows
Evolution and History Part 1 |
Part 2

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Fall/Winter Bluebirding Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3  Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7
Fecal Glue/Glop
Fecal Sacks

Feeding Bluebirds:

Berries Part 1
Emergencies Part 1
Feeders Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Feeder Competitors Part 1
Feeder placement
Fledglings and Nestlings Part 1
Frequency
Hand Feeding Bluebirds
Mealworms Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Mealworms Raising Part1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Mealworm Suppliers
Nestlings - see Feeding Fledglings
Miscellaneous Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Philosophy Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3  Part 4 | Part 5 
Plantings Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Seeds?
Suet/Recipes Part 1
Seasons Part 1 |
Part 2

Fledging and Fledglings Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Flycatchers - Great Crested and Ash-Throated
Flying Squirrels
Flocks of Bluebirds
Focus of Bluebirders and Bluebirding Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Food Sources - Other
Forms for Monitoring
Fostering

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Gifts Related to Bluebirds
Gilwood Nestbox
Goldfinches and Bluebirds
Golf Courses and Bluebirds Part 1 | Part 2
Grackles & Bluebirds
Grease as Predator Control
Group to Group, Organization to Organization

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Hand warmers in Nestboxes
Hawks/Owls and Bluebirds Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Heat & Nestboxes Part 1 Part 2 | Part 3
Help to Monitor Your Trail
Helper Bluebirds
Herbicides on the Bluebird Trail
History of Bluebirding Part 1 | Part 2
Hole and Pole Guards Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Hole reducers/metal guards

Hornets - see Wasps
House Finches and Bluebirds
Human Scent on the Nestbox Trail
Hypothermia

House Sparrows:

Active House Sparrow Control Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15
Attacks
Disposal of House Sparrows
Education
Guns to control House Sparrows
Identifying a House Sparrow Attack Part 1 | Part 2 
Miscellaneous HOSP Issues Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Monofilament lines
Passive HOSP Control Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11
Philosophy of HOSP Control Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4Part 5  Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17
Population, including decline
Problems with HOSP - general
including ID Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Rampage or Revenge Syndrome

Traps to Control House Sparrows & Starlings | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Use of Lime to Control House Sparrows

Hybrids

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Identifying 1st year Bluebirds
Imprinting of Bluebirds
Infertile/Unhatched Eggs Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Injured/Orphaned, and Wildlife Rehabbers Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Insects Lice and Mites in the Nestbox
Insecticides Part 1 | Part 2 Part 3 | Part 4Part 5
Insuring Bluebirds for the future
Island Habitat - see Airport Island Habitat for Trail
Ivory-billed woodpecker

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Kerfs (Ladders inside nestboxes)
Kestrels as Cavity Nesters and Predators of Other Cavity Nesters
Kingbirds & Bluebirds

Landscaping for Bluebirds - see Feeding: Planting
Last or Late Broods
Law Part 1 | Part 2
Lice - see Insects and Insecticides
License Plates
Lifespan
Lizards & Bluebirds

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Mad Bluebird
Mailboxes used as nestboxes
Mating and Fidelity
Mealworms: Feeding Part 1 |Part 2 | Raising Part 1 | Part 2| Suppliers
Memories of Bluebirding Part 1 | Part 2
Mice/Rats
Micromanagement
Migration
Miscellaneous Bluebird Messages Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9
Misidentification of other "Blue birds"
Mites - see Insects and Insecticides
Mockingbirds Part 1 | Part 2
Molting
Monitoring (in General) Part 1 | Part 2
Monitoring Equipment to take on the Trail
Monitoring Frequency Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Monogamy (or Not)
Mountain Bluebirds
Movies about Bluebirds - See Music/Poems/Movies
Multiple Nests Built by the Same Pair of Bluebirds

Music/Poems/Movies/Videos about Bluebirds Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Music for Bluebirds
My Trail (Trail Descriptions) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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North American Bluebird Society (NABS) Part 1 | Part 2
Nestboxes:

Bauldry & other open topped
Cameras
Cardboard
Carrier (hole in bottom) Slant
Cedar Part 1 | Part 2
Cement/Sawdust

Clustering (concentration)
Coffee Cans/Milk Cartons/Plastic Bottles
Real Bird Homes Chalet Nestbox
Decorative
Depth (Hole to floor)
Double Roof "Echo"
Dimensions
Drainage Holes
Evolution
Favorite
Floor Size
Gilbertson & other PVC
Gilwood
Griffin
Gourds
Guards Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Hanging (suspended from trees/cables)
Holes/Entrances Part 1 |  Part 2 | Part 3
Holes/Entrances - Large
Holes/Entrances - Peterson Oval
Hole Restrictors
Mailboxes used as nestboxes
Multi-Holed Part 1 | Part 2
Insulation/Ventilation - Heat/Cold
Material other than Pine or Cedar - e.g. plastic
Milk Cartons/Plastic Bottles
/Coffee Cans
Miscellaneous Nestbox Messages Part 1 | Part 2  | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10
Mounting - Direction
Mounting - Hanging
Mounting - Height
Mounting - Standard Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
NABS styles
Names
Numbering
Old vs. New
Opening Type - side, front, top
Painting/Staining Part 1 | Part 2
Pairing Nestboxes Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Paul Carrier's Slant Box
Perches on Nestboxes
Peterson - Dick Peterson the Man
Placement Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Plastic/Milk Cartons/Coffee Cans
Pressure Treated Lumber
PVC vs. Wood
Purple Martin Houses, bluebirds and
Relocation, box and/or nest
Repair

Roofs
Saturation
Slot
Trail Signs
Vandalism of Nestboxes
Waterproofing
When Should Nestboxes Be Put Up?
Zuern Tree Branch (Horizontal)

Nest ID | Part 2 | Part 3
Nestlings Part 1 | Part 2| Part 3
Nestlings - Found dead in the nestbox
Nests
Nesting Timetable

Nest Site Fidelity
Nest Sites other than Nestboxes Part 1 | Part 2
Nest Site Selection
Nesting Material
Nest Material too close to entrance
New Bluebirders Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6  | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12
Noel Predator Guard - see Hole and Predator Guards
Nuthatches

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Opossums & Bluebirds
Other Cavity Nesters
Owls as Cavity Nesters or Predators

Pairing Nestboxes Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8
Parrots - Exotics as Cavity Nesters in North America
Pastures
Personal Projects for Cavity Nesters
Pesticides and Alternatives
Pet Birds & Bluebirds
Petting Baby Birds (Nestlings)
Photographs of Bluebirds - See Pictures
Pictures and Photographs of Bluebirds & The Mad Bluebird
Pictures of Bluebirders
Plants - see Feeding: Planting
Poems about Bluebirds - see Music/Poems/Movies
Population
Predator ID Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
HOSP Predator Part 1 | Part 2
Predator Guards - see Nestbox Guards
Premature fledging
Prothonotary warblers
Purple Martins and Bluebirds Part 1  Part 2
Planting for Bluebirds Part 1 | Part 2

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Saturation - Nestbox
Search "Best of" or the Internet
Sex - Male vs. Female (percent)

Sexing Nestlings
Sexual Maturity
Snags (standing dead trees)

Snakes Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7
Songs & Calls by Bluebirds
Spiders in Nestboxes and as Food
Spring - Getting Your Trail Ready
Spring Sightings
Squirrels Part 1 | Part 2
Squirrels, Flying - see Flying Squirrels
Stamps With Bluebirds On Them
Starlings Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Starting A New Trail Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
State Birds
Statistics & the Scientific method
Stovepipe and Chimney Hazards

Strange Behavior? Part 1 | Part 2
Suet Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Surveys
Survival Rate of Bluebirds
Swallows - see Rough-winged, Tree Swallows and Violet Green Swallows

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Table of Contents
Tapes - Use of to Attract Bluebirds
TBN - see The Birdhouse Network
Ticks
Time Commitment
Timetable, nesting
Titmice Part 1 | Part 2
The Birdhouse Network Part 1 | Part 2
"Things" Named Bluebird
Trail Logs
Trail, My
Trail Signs
Trail, starting
Trails around Livestock

Transcontinental Bluebird Trail (TBT)
Traps - see House Sparrows
Traveling Bluebirders
Tree Swallows Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7| Part 8
Tree Swallows, Dead in nestbox
Types of Nest Material Part 1 |
Part 2

U-V-W        Back to the Top

Utility Pole Bluebirding

Vandalism of Nestboxes Part 1 | Part 2
Videos Related to Bluebirding
Violet Green Swallows

Warblers
Wasps and Bees Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Weather Part1 | Part 2
Western Bluebirds
West Nile Virus and Bluebird
Wet Nests
Widows and Widowers of the Nestbox
Window Strikes Part 1 | Part 2
Winterizing Nestboxes
Wood Ducks
Woodpeckers Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Woodpecker, Ivory-Billed
Wrens Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7

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Notes on how posts have been classified:

  • Classifications are somewhat arbitrary. Many Listserv members will post a message that responds to multiple other posts, and thus cannot be easily classified. Some posts take off on tangents unrelated to the original posts. This can make threads hard to follow.

  • Some classifications have related classifications - e.g., cleaning out old nests and blowflies.

  • The "Miscellaneous" classification (which started out as "Basics") is used for posts that don't fit well into another classification.

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Includes posts through Bluebird_L Digest #1615 and then through May 25, 2007.
Last updated on 12/28/2007. Missing 835 and 830, 1134 .

 

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