CAROLINA WREN
SPH ERE IS A GROUP of dimin-
brown birds whose tails are
usually held either erect or de
pressed but who rarely hold any
pose tor a considerable length of
time. The sounds they produce
are usually all out of proportion
to the size of the birds. The
group is probably best known by
its representative, the house
wren, which obligingly occupies or
at least appears to occupy the
bird houses put up by hopeful
There are three subspecies recog
nized of which the Florida wren
extends the range into Florida
and the Lom itaw ren from Texas
across the M exican border.
Possibly the most sta rtlin g
thing about the Carolina wren is
that it is m ore or less to be found
over its range at any tim e of the
year. On occasion it m ay sing,
even w ith the snow on the ground
its estatically repeated “tea k e t
tle ” or “whee-uilel" song. This
of course endears it to n a tu ra l
ists who at the w inter season
m ay be m ore or less starved fo i
a sound such as they hear from
this popular bird.
The nest is a m ass of vegetable
m aterial commonly hidden in
stum ps, fallen tree-tops or some
tim es in buildings. T here is an
inner lining of finer m aterial. In
the nest the 4 to 6 eggs are laid.
They are w hite or cream with
cinnamon, brown and lavender
m arkings. T here may be two or
th ree broods a year and incuba
tion for 12 days is carried on
chiefly by the female that is
sm aller than the m ale usually.
The food of the Carolina wren
is probably 95 per cent insects
and includes chinch bugs, cock
roaches. grasshoppers, crickets,
cotton-boll
weevils,
cucum ber
beetles, m oths and sim ilar pests.
Although this bird is less likely
to come to hum an habitations
than the house wren, it can be
enticed to a feeding station by
ham burger.. For th at m atte r, in
these days that might not be a
tra it lim ite d to our feathered
friends. A pparenly the wren has
no habits co ntrary to those that
suit m an’s in terests and it has
been aw’arded the honor of being
the sta te bird of South Carolina.
The N ational Wildlife F edera
tion encourages the study of birds
of this type through banding and
other means because those who
learn to study one form of na
tu re carefully usually have the
habit of being rational in their
evaluation of o th er forms of na
ture.
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♦ D esk T rays., Yeltons.
B r m k in g s I la r b o r P ilo t 3
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953
Hello World
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. C harles
N orm an of Sm ith River, a daugh
ter, Cynthia Helen, on Tuesday,
F ebruary 24, at Seaside hospital.
Crescent City. Dr. Ronniger a t
tending.
♦
Born. March 2, at Seaside hos
pital. a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Rettke.
♦ -
Mr. anti Mrs. Donald Thom p
son are parents of a daughter,
born Feb. 27 at Seaside hospital.
♦
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Benjam in Beal Sunday, M arch 1,
at Seaside hospital.
C arolina W ren
C1952 National W ild life Federation ’
young naturalists. Closely related
to the wrens are the w ren-t»ti
and the dippers or w ater ouzels,
with which we are not here p a r
ticularly concerned.
The wrens are usually the size
of the sm al> r sparrows.
The
Carolina wren m easures six inch
es including the two-inch tail and
the beak which is about 2/3 inch
long. The Carolina wren is rath er
conspicuously reddish for a wren
and lacks conspicuous m arkings
except for a long w hite or pale
brown stripe over each eye. The
under parts are buff and the
throat whitish. The wings are
short as they are in most wrens.
The black bars on the flanks of
the w inter wren and the white-
edged tail of the Bewick’s wren
are lacking in the Carolina wren.
Carolina wrens breed from
northern Florida to central Texas
north to N ebraska and the lower
valleys of the Hudson and Con
necticut riv e r
Som etim es they
are found farth er north into On
tario. Maine, Michigan and W is
consin but this is ra th e r unusual.
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