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Volume 42, Number 2,
February 1996:
Backyard Birds

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ISSUE HOME PAGE

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- what do you need to go birding?
- some common backyard birds
- house finch
- American robin
- house wren
- European starling
- house sparrow
- black-capped chickadee
- northern cardinal
- ruby-throated hummingbird
- blue jay
- gray catbird
- purple martin
- downy woodpecker
- eastern bluebird
- Baltimore oriole
- American goldfinch
- the Kansas winter bird feeder survey
- acknowledgment
- owls

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Backyard Birds
by Marvin Schwilling

HOUSE WREN
Most of us seem to have fallen in love with the house wren. Their rich bubbling song draws our attention to this busy, ever-moving small bird. They are not particularly colorful, just a small grayish-brown bird with lighter underparts.

However, they are friendly and live close to our houses and will nest in the bird nesting boxes we put up for them. If other houses or cavities are close by, the male will build what is known as dummy nests and fill them with sticks and nesting material.

Image - house wren


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