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The Bewick’s wren (Thryomanes bewickii) is a small brown bird easily recognizable by the white stripe above the eye.

They are cavity nesters that live in brushy areas around many residential areas. You will often see them walking slowly along the ground, scratching for insects and spiders.

Come the start of breeding season, male territorial behavior picks up. They begin perching on branches and singing.

Bewick’s werns are adaptable birds, with many considered full time residents in their West Coast range. In the south they tend to migrate longer distances to their northern breeding grounds.

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The Bewick’s Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) is a wren native to North America. At about 14 cm long, 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. The song is loud and melodious, much like the song of other wrens. 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. It usually lays 5–7 eggs that are white with brown spots.

This is currently the only species of its genus, Thryomanes. The Socorro Wren, formerly placed here too, is actually a close relative of the House Wren complex, as indicated by biogeography and mtDNA NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequence analysis, whereas Thryomanes seems not too distant from the Carolina Wren.

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Songs & Calls

These wrens are fascinating in that an individual may sing 15 or more distinct songs. A wren will repeat one song for almost two minutes, then switch to the next song. These songs were all performed by a single bird, recorded in our backyard in May of 2005.

Song #1
Play (.mp3, 15 seconds, 243Kb)

Song #2
Play (.mp3, 27 seconds, 433Kb)

Song #3
Play (.mp3, 17 seconds, 161Kb)

Song #4
Play (.mp3, 11 seconds, 154Kb)

Song #5
Play (.mp3, 11 seconds, 185Kb)

Song #6
Play (.mp3, 9 seconds, 156Kb)

Song #7
Play (.mp3, 12 seconds, 193Kb)

Song #8
Play (.mp3, 22 seconds, 358Kb)

Song #9
Play (.mp3, 6 seconds, 105Kb)

Song #10
Play (.mp3, 22 seconds, 353Kb)

Song #11
Play (.mp3, 4 seconds, 69Kb)

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