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The Carolina wren is the state bird of South Carolina. This list of birds of South Carolina includes species documented in the U.S. state of South Carolina and accepted by the South Carolina Bird Records Committee (SCBRC) of the Carolina Bird Club. As of mid 2021, there were 446 species definitively included in the official list.
With summer coming to a close, it may be time to put the bird feeder in the backyard away, with S.C.'s most common hummingbird ready to journey back south. Here's when hummingbirds leave the state ...
Carolina wren in Greenville, South Carolina At 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long, with a 29 cm (11 in) wingspan and a weight of about 18 to 23 g (0.63 to 0.81 oz), the Carolina wren is a fairly large wren; the second largest in the United States species after the cactus wren .
For precocial birds, those that develop and leave the nest quickly, a short nestling stage precedes a longer fledging stage. [3] A pair of welcome swallow chicks, Hirundo neoxena, taken the day after they fledged. All birds are considered to have fledged when the feathers and wing muscles are sufficiently developed for flight.
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The birds fledge in about eight weeks, Mossman said, and will then typically stay in the area near their nest. In late summer or fall they will join a communal flock to migrate south.
They fledge 60 to 65 days after hatching, [16] and reach sexual maturity at four years of age, although they usually do not successfully fledge chicks until their fifth year of age. [10] The hatching success, the percentage of birds that had at least one egg that hatched in a year, of the wood stork is around 62%.
Remarkably, during this time, the entire Bushtit family sleeps together in their large, hanging nest, unlike most breeding birds where only one adult typically sleeps on the nest at a time. After the young birds fledge, they move to sleeping on branches. [12] However, Bushtits can be sensitive during the breeding process. [13]