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By DONALD J. FREDERICK
National Geographic New* Washington—The tuneful bluebird once again includes a song of hope in its repertoire. Warbling a cheerful melody hasn’t been easy for the fabled bearer of happiness. Once fluttering close to extinction, the birds are staging a comeback thanks to a series of nesting box trails in the United States and Canada.
“The eastern bluebird —now so scarce that most people under 30 have never seen otie—surely is one of the loveliest and most appealing of North American birds,” writes Dr. Lawrence Zeleny in the June National Geographic. "Its extinction remains a real possibility, but a determined rescue campaign has been mounted in the United States and Canada.”
Numbers Have Dropped
Since retirement in 1966 as an agricultural biochemist,
84.3%