Bewick's Wrens
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Bewick's Wrens (Thryomanes bewickii): The Bewick's Wren is a wren native to North America.
The Bewick's Wren was named for Thomas Bewick by Audubon.
Identification Tips:
- Length: 4.5 inches
- Long, thin, slightly decurved bill
- Bold white supercilium
- Gray-brown upperparts (browner in eastern United States birds)
- Grayish-white underparts Wings and tail barred with black
- Long tail has white corners and is frequently held upright
- Dark legs
- Sexes similar
- Similar Species: The Bewick's Wren can be distinguished from House and Rock Wrens by its bold white supercilium. Carolina Wren is rustier above and buffier below. Marsh Wren has a streaked back.
Call / Song: The song is loud and melodious, much like the song of other wrens.
Description: At about 14cm long / 4.5 inches, it is gray-brown above, white below, with a long white eyebrow. While similar in appearance to the Carolina Wren, it has a long tail that is tipped in white.
Distribution / Habitat: It lives in thickets, brush piles and hedgerows, open woodlands and scrubby areas, often near streams. Its range is from southern British Columbia, Nebraska, southern Ontario, and southwestern Pennsylvania south to Mexico, Arkansas and the northern Gulf States. The San Clemente subspecies (leucophrys) of Bewick's Wren, found solely on California's San Clemente Island, went extinct soon after goats and sheep were introduced to the island. The subspecies brevicauda from Guadalupe Island suffered the same fate after 1903 for the same reason.
Nesting: It usually lays 5-7 eggs that are white with brown spots. (Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org and USGS)
Related Web Resources:... Greennature.com ... UIUC ... Rickert Nature Preserve - Bewick's Wrens Sound ... University of Michigan - Sound Files ... Long Fellow Creek ... Birds of Oklahoma ... Birdweb.org ... Mangoverde ... Oiseaux.net (Photo)
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