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Atlas Results
Eastern Bluebirds were found in 42 atlas squares, primarily in southeastern Saskatchewan. Most observations were made around Estevan and the eastern portion of the Aspen Parkland ecoregion. Elsewhere, sightings were scarce, with reports as far west as Harris and as far north as Love. Eastern Bluebirds were often observed using nest boxes, making confirmed breeding evidence relatively easy to come by for this uncommon breeder, resulting in confirmations in 19 squares. One nest was found in a natural tree cavity near Redvers.
Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
These gentle and secretive songbirds carry the colour of the earth on their breasts and the sky on their backs. Eastern Bluebirds arrive here later in spring than they do elsewhere. It is an unexpected thrill to discover these rare birds from eastern North America occupying a nestbox. Saskatchewan is at the northwestern limit of their breeding range which extends east to the Maritimes, and south through the eastern US and central America to Nicaragua, withdrawing from Canada and the northeastern US in winter.
Eastern Bluebirds frequent semi-open, often disturbed, human-modified landscapes and as cavity nesters will use nest boxes (Gowaty and Plissner 2020).
This is a rare to uncommon, local, and erratic resident throughout southeastern Saskatchewan. A straggler was reported near Uranium City in fall 1959. Most often present in the southeast, this bluebird decreases markedly in numbers and regularity of occurrence to the north and west, with rare breeding west to Eastend and north to Mistatim, Love, Biggar, and Prince Albert National Park (Moe Mareschal). In spite of more nestboxes and more observers, its numbers have diminished somewhat since 2000.
Original text by R. Lorne Scott. Text adapted and expanded upon by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Eastern Bluebird in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Eastern Bluebird in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=EABL&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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