Animal - Bird - The house wren
by Mike Savad
Title
Animal - Bird - The house wren
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This bird is called a House Wren, its a small spunky bird that has endless energy, is rather curious and kind of cute. About the size of a golf ball, this little guy has some rather curious habits.
The male, will scout out and build a number of nests, often a dozen or even more, he will build it with small twigs. He will do the best he can on each nest site. Then he will attract a female often with a song, they will pair up and he will show off his nest sites. She will inspect each one, and if she likes one, she will rearrange it to her own liking. They will build the nest together adding finer materials until its comfortable. Often adding things like spider egg sacs and web, partly to hold it together, and partly to act as mite control as the spiders hatch.
If the female doesn't like any of the nests, she will leave and find a better mate, and the male will just be annoyed he wasted his time in college, when he should have gone to a trade school to learn how to do it right.
There is a dark side to these birds however, they will kick all the other birds out in the area. Despite their cheerful side, the will enter nests, poke holes in eggs from other birds (or its own kind). And if there are babies, it will kill them as well, then toss their lifeless corpse out of the nest and maybe take it over.
That's why you don't actually want these in your garden. So if you see one making a nest, its best to dump it out. On the other hand, you can't kick them out once they have eggs, because its illegal to do so, they are protected. This birdhouse is one that I made, I actually made a number of them, a sparrow moved into one, and then never came back, I assume this little bird scared it off.
When the nestlings hatch, the parents will either feed them together, or she will leave and mate with another, while he feeds them as a single parent. When they are all done, they leave, sometimes removing the old nest, and they migrate to a warmer climate by Autumn.
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July 25th, 2019
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