How montonous the sounds…
How montonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds.”
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Wrentit
The Wrentit, Chamaea fasciata, is a small bird that lives in chaparral and bushland. It is the only species in the genus Chamaea.
The Wrentit is a sedentary (non-migratory) resident of a narrow strip of coastal habitat in western coast of North America, being found from Oregon south to Baja California.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 5.25 inches
• Short bill
• Dark brown head, flanks and upperparts
• Pinkish throat and breast with blurry streaks
• Very long brown tail
• Yellow eye
• Sexes similar
• Found along Pacific coast in dense vegetation
• Southern birds grayer than northern birds
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Long tail and dark brown plumage make the wrentit unlikely to be confused with any other bird.
The Wrentit feeds by skulking through dense scrub gleaning exposed insects found by sight. It feeds primarily on beetles, caterpillars, bugs, and ants, but also takes small berries and seeds.
Wrentits mate for life, forming pair bonds only a few months after hatching.
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We never miss the music until…
We never miss the music until the sweet voiced bird has flown away.
An O. Henry Quotation
Lucys Warbler: Have you seen this bird?
Lucys Warbler
Lucy’s Warbler, Vermivora luciae, is the smallest New World warbler found in North America.
Dr. J. G. Cooper discovered this tiny and inconspicuous warbler at Fort Mojave, on the Arizona side of the Colorado River, in the spring of 1861. He named it in honor of Miss Lucy Baird, daughter of Prof. Spencer F. Baird. It might well have been named the mesquite warbler, as its distribution coincides very closely with that of this tree, which seems to furnish its favorite home, most of its nesting sites, and much of its foraging area.
Identification Tips:
• Length: 4.25 inches
• Small, active, insect-eating bird
• Thin, very pointed bill
• Pale gray upperparts
• Whitish underparts
• Rusty uppertail coverts
• Plain gray wings
• Dark legs
• Males have small rusty patch on crown
• Females and immatures similar to males but somewhat paler and may have some buff on underparts
Similar species:
The whitish undertail coverts of the Lucy’s Warbler separate it from other grayish warblers like Virginia’s and Orange-crowned that have yellow undertail coverts. Bell’s Vireo is somewhat similar but has a heavier bill and lacks rusty uppertail coverts.
Lucy’s is the only warbler besides Prothonotary to nest in cavities. Lucy’s Warblers inhabit riparian mesquite and brushy country of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
These strictly insectivorous birds forage actively, looking for the caterpillars, beetles, and leafhoppers that compose much of their diet.
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