The Prescott Bluebird Recovery Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the recovery, restoration, and enhancement of the Western Bluebird and other native cavity nesting birds. All of the efforts of volunteers involved with the Prescott Bluebird Recovery Project are directed at remedying these three problems. The most important effort is the construction and placement of nest boxes in appropriate habitat.
Volunteers also monitor each nestbox during the nesting season.
In addition to obtaining valuable nestinginformation, monitors supplement the feeding of nesting birds by offering mealworms during unusually cold, wet weather. All nesting data gathered by volunteers is included in a database and reported to interested organizations such as the North American Bluebird Society and the Cornell Nest Box Network Licensed banders also band each adult and nestling bluebird and submit that data to the North American Bird Banding Laboratory. The nest boxes used in the program are constructed with an entrance hole size that will not admit the European Starling, thus reducing competition. House Sparrows that try to usurp nest boxes being used by bluebirds are trapped and removed. Neither of these nonnative birds are protected under United States law.