Canyon Wren
Canyon Wren: Medium wren with rust-brown upperparts, fine white spots on gray-brown back, nape, and crown, white throat and breast, and white-spotted brown belly. Tail is long and brown with thin black bars. Head has a flattened appearance; bill is long, slender, and slightly decurved.
● Song:
"peup, peup, peup tew tew tew tew tew mew", "jeet"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Canyon Wren: Eats insects and spiders; forages by hopping around on rock canyon walls, talus piles, or through dense undergrowth and thickets.
● Breeding & nesting:
Canyon Wren: Four to seven white eggs with red brown flecks are laid in a nest made of sticks, lined with hair, feathers, cocoons, and fine material, and built in a tree cavity, bird box, or abandoned nest. Incubation ranges from 13 to 15 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Canyon Wren: Rock Wren is much paler, with gray-brown back, streaked breast, and different voice.