Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Bewick's Wren
Thryomanes bewickii
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Long white eyebrow, twitchy tail, a song with a million regional dialects. Vanished from the East, holds the West.
- Populasi
- ~7.9 million mature individuals; declining sharply east of the Mississippi/Great Plains, stable to expanding in the west
- Habitat
- Dense shrubby understory, chaparral, brushy woodland edges, oak/pine undergrowth, streamside thickets, desert washes/arroyos and canyons, and suburban gardens
- Fakta menarik
- Young male Bewick's Wrens learn their loud, variable songs by listening to neighboring adult males rather than their own fathers, producing local song "dialects" — an individual male can sing up to roughly two dozen song-pattern variations.
- Sebaran
- Western North America, from southern British Columbia and the Great Plains south through the western United States and much of Mexico; a once-widespread population east of the Mississippi River (into Ontario, Pennsylvania, and the Appalachians) has nearly disappeared over the last several decades
- Makanan
- Mostly insects and spiders (beetles, ants, wasps, true bugs, caterpillars, grasshoppers) gleaned from bark, foliage, and the ground, rarely foraging higher than about 3 m; occasionally berries or seeds, and will take suet/sunflower seed at feeders in winter
- Ukuran
- 0,135 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,18 m
- Masa hidup
- 4 tahun
