![]() Kim Fields' 'Living the Dream' role shakes off child-actor past Jennifer Aniston, Gabrielle Union cast in 'The Facts of Life' reboot Jon Stewart cast in mystery role on 'Facts Of Life' live with Jennifer Aniston The chicks become independent 4 weeks after fledging and start to breed the first spring following their birth.'Facts of Life' star Lisa Whelchel stuns viewers almost 40 years later As many as three broods may be raised by a pair in a single breeding season. After the chicks hatch, they are fed exclusively on invertebrates and they fledge in 12-14 days. Incubation is done by the female and lasts 12-16 days. The eggs are creamy-white with brown or reddish-brown spots and are more heavily marked at the broad end. The clutch size is generally 3 to 6 eggs but can reach as high as 7 in Texas. Egg-laying dates and clutch size vary by region in Texas, the time period is from late February to late August, in Iowa, it ranges from late April to June. Males obtain nesting materials while the females remain at the site to construct the nest. These are arch-shaped structures with a side entrance and built of dried plants or strips of bark, as well as horsehair, string, wool, and snake sloughs. Nests are usually placed 1-3 m (3.3-9.8 ft) from the ground and are rarely higher. They nest in cavities in trees, or in man-made structures such as bird-boxes, buildings, tin cans, mailboxes or unorthodox places such as pockets of hanging jackets in sheds or in a tractor in everyday use. The chatter is used exclusively with territorial encounters with male song, and the song can either follow or overlap her mate's song.Ĭarolina wrens are monogamous and will usually mate for life. Females are the only ones that can perform the paired 'dit-dit' or chatter sounds often used in territorial disputes with predators. ![]() In southern regions of their range, the sound males use in alarm disputes is a ringing 'pink' or 'p'dink' sound. Males alone produce the 'cheer' call, which can sound indistinct. Both males and females give out alarm calls, but only males sing to advertise territory. After finding a mate, pairs maintain their territory throughout the year, moving around and foraging together. They are also capable of flying vertically from the base of a tree to the top in a single-wing assisted bound. Their flights are generally of short-duration, rapid, low-leveled, and wavelike. Other movements involve being capable of crawling like a creeper and hanging upside-down like a nuthatch. When stationary, they move in twitched motions, jerking their breast around. While moving abruptly, they pause momentarily for chattering or singing. When on the ground, they move in jerky hops pillaging through various objects, whether man-made or natural. Carolina wrens are wary and are more often heard than seen. They also probe bark crevices on lower tree levels or pick up leaf litter in order to search for prey. ![]() The males in this species are usually larger than their mates.Ĭarolina wrens are active during the day and spend the majority of their time on or near the ground searching for food, or in tangles of vegetation and vines. The post-nuptial molt for adults in the same time period is more pronounced in color than the spring molt, with both sexes similar in appearance. In August and September, the partial plumage molt for the post-juvenile wrens is darker in color and affects the contour plumage, wing coverts, and tail and develops a whiter superciliary stripe. The juvenile is similar in appearance, but the plumage is generally paler a softer texture, buff-tipped wing coverts, and a paler superciliary streak. Its iris is reddish-brown, the upper mandible is lemon-colored and paler at the base and lower mandible. The underwing coverts sport a grayish buff color. Its chin and throat are grey that becomes buff on its chest, flank and belly, though the latter two are of a warmer color. The ear coverts are speckled gray and grayish-black. The white supercilious streak borders thinly with a black above and below, and extends above and beyond its shoulders. The rectrices are brown with 18 to 20 bars that span across the tail. The secondary coverts are rich brown with darker brown barring on both webs the bars on the primaries are on the outerwebs only, but darker and more noticeable. Shoulders and greater coverts are a rich brown, with a series of small white dots on the lesser primary coverts. The crown of the Carolina wren is rich brown and appears more chestnut-colored on its rump and upper tail coverts.
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