House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)
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House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) |
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 parent and young © Hans Majong |  feeds cowbird young © Dominiek Plouvier |  © Jean-Louis Rousselle |
 © Stephan Ferrier |  © Erik Toorman |  © Pieter Verheij |
 © Pieter Verheij |  feeding a shiny cowbird young © Ricardo van Dijk |  albino © Jan van Laarhove |
 just from the nest © Hans Majong |  © Raoul Ribot |  © Suzette Eeltink |
| The house wren is a small bird, well known in Suriname. It lives very near to people. It is brown and often has its brown-black striped tail in vertical position. It sings all day from 5 in the morning, when it is still dark, up to the evening. When not singing, it will mostly seek for insects. It builds its cup-shaped nest near or even in houses and buildings, often under the ridge of the roof, but sometimes in a sawing-machine, in boots or in other things that are little used. For the material of the nests it uses all kind of materials. In my room at the university a nest was made of paper-clips, lined with down. The eggs are small, green with dark spots. They can raise young up to four times a year. Sometimes you see a wren feeding an enormous young, a young of a brood parasite, the shiny cowbird. At sunset a whole family of house wrens can be seen to take a bath in the sand in a garden, preferably dry sand from shell-ridges. They make a small cup in the sand and throw sand on themselves by flapping with their wings. From their territory they will chase away any intruding house wren without mercy. The first three photos were made in Commewijne, the first by Hans Majong along the Commewijne river, then one by Dominiek Plouvier with a Shyny cowbird young. Then one by Jean-Louis Rousselle from Meerzorg. Dominiek writes about his photo: 'House wren couple feeding an extremely persisting begging young of shiny cowbird ! For 8 days you hear the consistenly begging young flying behind the 2 feeding parents !' A bird searching for food, was seen by Stephan Ferrier. Then photos by Erik Toorman, at Kwatta in Suriname (juni 2003) and by Pieter Verheij in January 2005, a bird carrying food to the nest and by Ricardo van Dijk of a house wren feeding the young of a Shiny Cowbird. Jan van Laarhoven saw an albino in Nieuw Nickerie in March 2016. A song of a House wren was recorded by Ribot in Nickerie in January 2006 and two videos by Dominiek Plouvier of a House wren , the first one of a shiny cowbird young that wants to be fed by its foster parent. |
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| Sound recording of a House Wren © Jan Hein Ribot |
| Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see) | ||
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| Video recording of a House Wren © ; | Video recording of a House Wren © ; |
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| Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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| The 1160 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 251 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |
