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The female resembles the non-breeding male but has a chestnut bill and eye-patch. [23] Immature males will moult into breeding plumage the first breeding season after hatching, though this may be incomplete with residual brownish plumage and may take another year or two to perfect. [ 24 ]
The house wren complex has been split into eight species: Northern house wren, Troglodytes aedon; Southern house wren, Troglodytes musculus; Cozumel wren, Troglodytes beani; Kalinago wren, Troglodytes martinicensis; St. Lucia wren, Troglodytes mesoleucus; St. Vincent wren, Troglodytes musicus; Grenada wren, Troglodytes grenadensis; Cobb's wren ...
These include: feather, hair, wool, spider cocoons, strips of bark, rootlets, moss, and trash. The male wren finds dry sticks, which he adds to the nest. Once he is done, the female inspects the nest; but if she does not approve of the construction, she will throw any unwanted sticks to the ground. After this process, the female lines the nest.
The Carolina wren was first described under the name of Sylvia ludoviciana by John Latham in 1790. [3] [note 1] Louis Pierre Vieillot considered all wrens under the genus Troglodytes and called the Carolina wren Troglodytes arundinaceus, but placed it subsequently in a separate genus Thryothorus (initially misspelled Thriothorus) [2] that he created in 1816.
In Anglophone regions, the Eurasian wren is commonly known simply as the "wren", as it is the originator of the name. The name wren has been applied to other, unrelated birds, particularly the New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) and the Australian wrens . Most wrens are visually inconspicuous though they have loud and often complex songs.
The superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae, and is common and familiar across south-eastern Australia. It is a sedentary and territorial species, also exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism; the male in breeding plumage has a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle, and tail, with a black mask and black or dark blue ...
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Both the male and female adult white-winged fairywren may utilise a rodent-run display to distract predators from nests with young birds. The head, neck and tail are lowered, the wings are held out and the feathers are fluffed as the bird runs rapidly and voices a continuous alarm call.