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Bird name:

Bewick's Wren

Thryomanes bewickii

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Wrens (Troglodytidae)

Code 4

BEWR

Code 6

THRBEW

ITIS

178562

Breeding Location:

Grassland with scattered trees, Bushes, shrubs, and thickets, Scrub vegetation areas

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Declining east of Rocky Mountains

Egg Color:

White with specks of purple, brown and gray

Number of Eggs:

4 - 11

Incubation Days:

12 - 14

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Twigs, mosses, bits of snakeskin, and grass lined with feathers.

Migration:

Some migrate

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General

Bewick's Wren: Small wren with unstreaked, gray to red-brown upperparts and plain white underparts. White eyebrows are conspicuous. Tail is long and white-edged with dark bars. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Bewick's Wren: Resident in British Columbia and the western and southern U.S. Eastern birds spend winters in the Gulf coast states. Preferred habitats include thickets, brush piles, hedgerows, open woodlands, and scrubby areas, often near streams.

Breeding and Nesting

Bewick's Wren: Four to eleven white eggs, flecked with purple, brown, and gray, are laid in a stick nest lined with leaves, grass, and feathers, and built in almost any available cavity, including a woodpecker hole, tin can, coat pocket or sleeve, basket, tool shed, or brush pile. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Bewick's Wren: Diet consists mostly of insects and spiders; forages on the ground and in trees.

Readily Eats

Apple Slices, Peanut Butter

Vocalization

Bewick's Wren: Male sings "chip, chip, chip, de-da-ah, tee-dee". The call is a flat "jipp."

Similar Species

Bewick's Wren: House and Rock Wrens lack white eyebrows. Carolina Wren is rust-brown above and buff below. Marsh Wren is smaller and has a streaked back.

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Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

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.

Field Guide to Birds of North America