Scientific name:
Luscinia svecica

Natural spread:
north, / Western Europe, Eastern Asia

in swampy thickets and at bush-hands shores north, and the bluebird lives Western Europe as well as Eastern Asia from the type of the nightingales. Also in the cover-poor landscapes of the tundras, in the autumn even in the fields, one can find this Singvogel.

Shape As the weak beak, the long wings and the long tail are regarded as typical characteristics for all nightingales and particularly the near relative robin also for the bluebird. The adult males are the whole year over, to recognize by the auburn tail-root and the auburn breast-bond, that the female lacks. In the brood-dress, the males attract attention through its shining-blue throat, in whose middle differently, with the races, an auburn or white "star" stands. The reason-coloring, dun upper side and sallow-white underside, is with both sexes like.

Way of life The bluebirds last hidden. The precinct-chant of the males is diversified and often with imitations of other bird-types, pushes through, as one knows it with mockers, however little impressive. it becomes, on a low tree or bush sedentary, recited. Different than the robins, the males execute downright Balzsprünge. they climb singing into the air and drop itself with broadly fanned out tail and stretched wings again. With the Bodenbalz, the blue throat is put to the show, if it around-stilts about its females.

Becoming also the nests very much hides near positioned at the ground, in Erdhöhlen or between roots, and in water-proximity.

Brood-duration and brood-care robins.

Endangering The bluebird is on the red list of the types threatened by the extinction with us.