I'm going to read you a quote about the Eastern Bluebird.

It's an old-timey one from way back in 1896.

Quote, the bluebird's disposition is typical of all that is sweet and amiable.

His song breathes of love, even his fall call note,

Turwee, Turwee is soft and gentle. So associated is his voice with the

birth and death of the seasons that, to me, his song is freighted with all the gladness of springtime,

while the sad notes of the bird's passing southward tell me more plainly than the falling leaves

that the year is dying."

End quote.

That poetic little paragraph was from the book Birds of Eastern North America by Frank Chapman.

Here's another one, this time about the mountain bluebird.

It's from the book The Birds of California written by William Dawson,

published in 1923. Quote,

Gentle and demure, as well as brave and high-spirited, is this sky-born thoroughbred of the

Sierras, this bit of heaven's own blue incarnate, end quote. Sweet, amiable, gentle, high-spirited, soft, demure, these are the kinds of words that have been used to describe the personalities of bluebirds.

If appearances alone could tell us all about the personality of a bird, then sure, I'd agree that the three bluebird species

must all be gentle-hearted creatures. I mean, just look at their sweet little faces. They wouldn't

hurt a fly. Except that they would. Bluebirds eat flies. To a fly, a bluebird is a terrifying

blue monster. We should know better than to be deceived by

a cute outward appearance, right? Tasmanian devils, for example, look super cuddly and

pedible, but those feisty marsupials will gnaw your face off given half the chance.

And remember the Ewoks, those sentient teddy bears on the forest moon of Endor?

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