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allan Broeks
CAROLINA WREN
Published by the National Association of Audubon Societies
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No. 42 Carolina Wren
Length 512 inches
This active and irrepressible bird is regarded by
many as the Beau Brummel of the Wren family.
Among Wrens, with their proverbial plain dress,
the present species, with its rich rufous upper
parts, cream-buff and white breast and conspicu-
ous whitish line over the eye, is well equipped to
arrest attention. When to these points are added
size, a far-carrying melodious song, and attractive
and vivacious manners, we have a Wren that at
once claims our admiration. The Carolina Wren,
unlike the House Wren, is a lover of woodlands
and copses. The tops of fallen trees, brush piles,
logs and stumps are his favorite haunts. Occa-
sionally, however, he comes about our homes and
has even been known to nest in a sack of wool in
a woodshed. He is an astonishingly active bird,
and, at least when watched, is never still a mo-
ment.
The song of the Carolina Wren, whether heard
ringing through the bare woods of winter or the
leaf-canopied forests of summer, is always a
thrilling, welcome note.
The nest is built in a variety of places, such as
brush piles, holes ard crannies in trees or stumps,
low bushes and sometimes in bird boxes. It is
rather bulky, of weeds and grasses, wool, rags,
etc. The eggs are from four to six, white,
speckled with reddish-brown.
Classification: Order Passeres. Family Troglodytida.
Scientific name: Thryothorus ludovicianus.
Range: Eastern United States from Florida and
Texas north to Illinois and Connecticut.
No. 42 from set of 50 Winter Birds of the Northeastern United
States. Published by the National Association of Audubon So-
cieties, 1974 Broadway, New York City. Price per set, in a box,
$1.00 post paid.
