>From Birds of the Puget Sound Region:- Description :4" Tiny, round with stubby tail. Thin bill, lightbrown eyebrow. Chocolate brown above, fine dark banding on tail, wings, belly. Breast rich rufous brown. Secretive but constantly active.
Similar species Bewicks' Wren, House Wren Voice Song remarkable lengthy series of varied tinkling trills, warbles. Calls include oft given chit chit, rapid staccaot series of chirps. Picture at http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/rouge_river/wiwr1.jpg Ian Lawther ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dru Brooke-Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:04 PM Subject: [NSP] Winter Wren - 6 xii 2005 > Does anyone know if the Winter Wren of Seattle, NPS Magazine Page 39, > First in composition competition, is troglodytes troglodytes? If so > it's the same one as we know which also looks like the little woodcut > on the next page, and sings very loudly for such a small size. Thomas > Bewick (he of Derek Hobbs's Footsteps) says of it, > > "This diminutive active bird is very common in England, and braves our > severeft winters, which it contributes to enliven by its sprightly > note. During that feafon it approaches near the dwellings of man, and > takes fhelter in the roofs of houfes, barns, hay-ftacks, and holes > inthe walls; it continues its fong until late in the evening, and not > unfrequently during a fall of fnow." > > Dru Brooke-Taylor > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
