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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Sedge Wren (Cistothorus stellaris) breed in eastern North America, west of the Appalachians down to Missouri and Arkansas, preferring wet meadows or grasslands, nesting in tall grass or sedges. In winter they may move further south to coastal areas from Florida to Texas. It was recently split off from […]
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris) is native to Canada, the US and Mexico, living in marshes with tall vegetation like cattails. Males make dummy nests in their territory and may peck eggs and young of other birds nesting nearby. MARSH WREN (Cistothorus palustris) *gallery moved, click button below* MARSH WREN
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The House Wren is a member of the family Troglodytidae, in the Order Passeriformes. Its ranges is from Canada to tip of South America and is thus the mostly widely distributed bird in the New World. Its variations in different parts of its range have resulted in taxonomic difficulties
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchos brunneicapillus) is a member of the family Troglodytidae, in the Order Passeriformes. It is endemic to the deserts of the southwest US and extends to northern and central Mexico. Arizona has this, the largest wren, as its State Bird. Populations have declined due to habitat
Home Subjects Covers About Contact Shrikes are songbirds that prey on other birds, rodents and Arthropods. They lack the strong talons of Raptors, so they impale their prey on thorns or sharp twigs. Their family is Laniidae and there are 2 species in North America north of Mexica, both represented below. Loggerhead Shrikes range south
Home Subjects Covers About Contact Family Regulidae (KINGLETS) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each species. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET Regulus calendula GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET Regulus satrapa Facebook-f Chicago, IL EMAIL
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact This is a mixed gallery of Passerine birds of several families with relatively few shots compared to species that have their own galleries. Click on any thumbnail to see a larger image. List of Species PASSERIFORMES (perching birds) click image to open photo gallery Ptiligonatidae (SILKY FLYCATCHERS) Eurylaimidae (BROADBILLS)
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) is the only American member of the family Aegilathidae and lives in mixed open woodlands in the western North America from Vancouver to Guatemala. It often feeds in mixed foraging flocks with chickadees and warblers , and builds a penduline hanging nest. BUSHTIT (Psaltriparus minimus)
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata) is found in coastal habitat along the west coast of North America from Oregon to Baja California in Mexico. There has been much uncertainty as to its relationships but is not closely related to a wren nor a tit. It has been currently placed in
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) is a Passerine bird which is the lone member of the family Remizidae in North America. Others species are in the Old World. The live in desert areas of the US southwest, and Mexico. VERDIN (Auriparus flaviceps) click image to open photo gallery VERDIN (Auriparus
