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Wrentit

Chamaea fasciataOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wrentit (Timaliidae)

Codes: Common Name: WREN Scientific Name: CHAFAS ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178826

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: All-purpose
Eye Color: Largely whitish in adults; Outer ring is brownish gray in young, reddish brown to maroon in adults.
Head Pattern: Eyeline, Plain
Crown Color: Gray-brown
Forehead Color: Gray-brown
Nape Color: Gray-brown
Throat Color: Buff
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 17 cm (6.5 in)
Weight: 14 g (0.5 oz)
Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color: Brown, Gray, Yellow
Underparts: Red-brown to gray-brown.
Upperparts: Gray-brown
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked, Solid

Flight

Topo Map: Perching-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Weak fluttering flights of short duration.
Wingspan Range: 25 cm (9.75 in)
Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
Tail Shape: Rounded Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Gray-brown
Under Tail: Gray
Leg Color: Gray

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Wrentit

Wrentit: Small, noisy songbird with dark gray-brown upperparts, thick streaked, red-brown to buff-brown underparts. Bill is short and black. Tail is very long and dark. Eyes are creamy white, bill is short and gray. Legs and feet are gray. Northern birds have darker upperparts than southern birds.

● Song: "pit-pit-pit-tr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r", "peep-peep-peep-pee-pee-peepeepeepeprrr"

● Foraging & Feeding: Wrentit: Eats insects, fruits, and spiders. Main diet consists of berries and fruits during winter.

● Breeding & nesting: Wrentit: Three to five pale green blue eggs are laid in a neat cup nest made of bark fiber, held together by cobwebs, and hidden in a low bush. Incubation ranges from 15 to 16 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: Wrentit: Bushtit is smaller, has plain, pale gray underparts, and buff to black face patch.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flights of short duration.

● Range & Habitat: Wrentit: Resident from the Columbia River on the northern border of Oregon southward along coastal chaparral into Baja California and into the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. Chaparral, shrubs, and brush are preferred habitats.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^Population

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.5 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Perching-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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