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How To Use House wren In A Sentence

  • Down in the canyon, I often see the house wren, acorn and Nuttall's woodpeckers, wrentit, and, in winter, the yellow-rumped warbler.
  • Enemy number two is the house wren that routinely takes over nest boxes occupied by bluebirds and other hole-nesting birds, by puncturing the eggs or removing young nestlings…
  • The house wren is a small, sexually monomorphic and monochromatic migratory songbird that breeds throughout much of North America.
  • This hypothesis is supported by correlative and experimental evidence from various species such as kittiwakes, cormorants, house wrens, cliff swallows, and collared flycatchers.
  • House wrens and chickadees compete for cankerworms and caterpillars; wood ducks, gray squirrels, flickers, and screech owls fight for the same nesting sites.
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  • Unlike many socially polygynous species, house wrens are sexually monomorphic; both sexes are a fairly uniform brownish gray.
  • House wrens and chickadees compete for cankerworms and caterpillars; wood ducks, gray squirrels, flickers, and screech owls fight for the same nesting sites.
  • This is fortunate, because house wren nestlings have prodigious appetites.
  • They have been found eating gray squirrels, possums, black rats, and house wrens.
  • The following spring, other birds - including bluebirds, tree swallows, house wrens and a host of other secondary cavity-nesting species - scout out and lay claim to these secondhand houses.
  • It struck the tier of rock below with clattering echo, displaced another stone twice its size, then bounced -- bounced -- and a slither of slaty rock the size of a house wrenched out -- shot into mid-air with crash and sharp clappering echoes -- Then the Pass was filled with the thundering roll. The Freebooters of the Wilderness
  • Males in the cavity-nesting house wren frequently add arthropod cocoons to their nests during building, possibly as an ornamental cue for female choice.
  • A house wren feeds 500 spiders and caterpillars to her young in one afternoon; a brown trasher consumes 6,000 insects a day; a chickadee eats 138,000 canker worm eggs in 25 days; and, a pair of flickers eats 5,000 ants as snack. Chapter 7
  • There are anecdotal reports of bluebirds and House Wrens taking over the nests of Ash-throated Flycatchers.

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