blue-bird

For example, during my smallmouth outing, the blue-bird sky and clear water looked wonderful to me.

Do You Really Know Your Home Waters? 2009

There is a bird that lives on rocks, called the blue-bird from its colour.

The History of Animals 2002

As the morning light stole through my open window in undimmed transparency, the robin, the blue-bird, the mocking-bird, the hosts of choral warblers, held their early oratorio in the patriarchal elms.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Nor did he heed the blue-bird singing in the noonday sun to the arbutus blossoms crushed by his unwitting feet, or notice the petulant squirrel flinging down the shells of his nuts, as if in mockery at the passing stranger.

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

I can hear a little blue-bird, chirping sweetly in yon tree;

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The blue-bird is a-wing; he has heard the call of spring;

A Jolly Jingle-Book Laura [Compiler] Chandler

Identification and study of the habits of a few common birds, as song-sparrow, blue-bird, wren; observations of the form and habits of a few common insects, as house-fly, dragon-fly.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

As it grew apace, the blue-bird, robin, cherry-bird, king-bird, and many more, came with haste and built their nests and warbled in its boughs, and so became orchard-birds, and multiplied more than ever.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Birds suitable for study by the pupils of Form II are the crow, flicker, downy woodpecker, blue-bird, chipping-sparrow, phoebe, wren.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

One looks in vain in these pages for any good description of the song-sparrow, the blue-bird, the blue-jay, the kingfisher, or the oriole.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various