If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)


4/12/03 Eaton Canyon Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

6/26/10 Trans Preserve Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, SW Riverside County, CA
4/12/12 On a Mutabilis China rose bush on our back patio. Murrieta, Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: House Wren

SPECIES: Troglodytes aedon

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/12/2003

LOCATION: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, San Bernardino County, CA

From Stokes Field Guide to Birds-Western Region & Kaufman Focus Guides-Birds of North America:

HABITAT: Fussing in brush piles, singing its bubbling song from trees, the House Wren is familiar from deep woods to back yards. Shy but curious; popping up in the open, it may hold its tail straight up. Nests in holes in trees or in birdhouses or other cavities. 

 IDENTIFYING MARKS: 5"; plump little bird with short tail often cocked; upper parts unstressed and grayish brown; faint buffy eyebrow; underparts grayish white with some buffy barring on flanks. Our dullest colored wren, with no prominent field marks. 

VOICE: Song a descending warble lasting 2-3 seconds; calls include a series of short buzzes and a rattlelike churr. 
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