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Bewick's Wren

Thryomanes bewickiiOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wrens (Troglodytidae)
Bewicks Wren Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: Curved (up or down)
  • Eye Color: Medium auburn brown.
  • Head Pattern: Eyeline, Plain
  • Crown Color: Blue-gray
  • Forehead Color: Blue-gray
  • Nape Color: Blue-gray
  • Throat Color: White
  • Cere color: No Data
Bewicks Wren Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 13 cm (5.25 in)
  • Weight: 11 g (0.4 oz)
  • Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
  • Color: White, Brown, Gray
  • Underparts: White
  • Upperparts: Blue-gray
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid
Bewick's Wren Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.
  • Wingspan Range: 18 cm (7.25 in)
  • Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Barred
  • Upper Tail: Barred blue-gray edged with white spots.
  • Under Tail: Barred blue-gray.
  • Leg Color: Gray
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Family Wren (Troglodytidae)_blue
Species Thryomanes bewickii
Length5.25 Inches
Wingspan7.25 Inches

Bewick's Wren

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. Bill is long and slightly decurved. Legs and feet are gray. Eastern populations have seriously declined since the 1960s.

● Song: "chip, chip, chip, de-da-ah, tee-dee"

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

● Breeding & 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.

● 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.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.
Bewicks Wren Body Illustration
● Range & 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.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationDeclining east of Rocky Mountains
MigrationSome migrate
Weight0.4 Ounces