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Carolina Wren |
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Thryothorus ludovicianus |
| Description: 5 1/2" rich brown above, buff below with conspicuous white eyebrow | Habitat: Brushy areas, moist woodlands and swamps, suburbs, gardens, tangles, brush piles. active and curious. |
| Nesting: 5 brown-spotted whitish eggs in a feather-lined domed stick nest with an entrance on the side, nest can be placed in stone walls, hollow tree stumps, tin cans, bird houses, even coat pockets on clotheslines | Range: resident of southeastern US north to Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, southern New England |
| Voice: loud whistled tweedle-tweedle-tweedle or tea-kettle, tea-kettle-tea-kettle-tea, sung all day long in all seasons | Diet:
insects, invertebrates, small vertebrates, a few seeds |
| Notes: uncommon cowbird host, they do not migrate, severe winters known to decimate their numbers, loves suet |
| When present in Oklahoma: present year-round state-wide, sparse in panhandle |