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	Wrentit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The AOU places the Wrentit in the latter family, giving it the distinction of being the only babbler known from the New World.
		The Wrentit is a small (15-cm) bird with uniform dull olive, brown, or grayish plumage.
		The Wrentit is a sedentary (non-migratory) resident of a narrow strip of coastal habitat in western coast of North America, being found from Washington south to Baja California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrentit (423 words)

	Wrentit - Chamaea fasciata
		Found from northern Oregon to Baja California, the wrentit is a common resident west of deserts, along the coast and in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
		The wrentit is a small brown song bird with fluffy olive-brown or dark brown feathers on its back, and paler or pinkish brown feathers with faint streaks on its underside.
		Wrentits are omnivorous, and forage for insects and spiders that it gleans from bark of shrubs and trees.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /wrentit.htm (681 words)

	Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata)
		Wrentits breeding in chaparral habitat of Southern California were negatively associated with the amount of surrounding urbanization (Stralberg and Bao 1999).
		Wrentits may be a good model species for this type of research, due to their relatively sedentary nature and high abundance.
		Wrentit population density in coastal scrub habitats may be reduced by habitat degradation and physical disturbances that alter shrub cover or diversity.
	www.prbo.org /calpif/htmldocs/species/scrub/wrentit.htm (2274 words)

	All About Birds
		The Wrentit used to be considered the sole member of the family Chamaeidae, but genetic studies show that it is the only American representative of the large Old World family of babblers, Timaliidae.
		Wrentit pairs mate for life, and may be together for more than 12 years.
		Wrentits along the coast and in the more humid areas of the north tend to be darker than individuals living in drier and more interior parts of the range.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Wrentit.html (202 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Wrentit
		The Wrentits are a small songbird with a long tail (often held cocked), stubby straight bill, and relatively uniform gray brown coloring on head, back, wings, and tail.
		Wrentits are very secretive as they move around in the dense shrubbery and are very hard to see.
		Wrentit nests are made of a cobweb outer binding with a coarse bark structure, and a deep cup of fine bark, lined with fine fibers or even hair.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=223 (782 words)

	Wrentit
		The Wrentit is uniformly brown with a faintly streaked breast and conspicuous pale eyes.
		The Wrentit gleans food from the bark surfaces of shrubs and eats primarily insects, spiders and small fruits.
		The Wrentit is a year-round resident from the Columbia River on the northern border of Oregon southward along coastal chaparral into Baja California and in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /wrentit_info.htm (219 words)

	the wrentit is often found in chaparral, and coastal scrub
		The Wrentit is a small brown bird that often holds its long tail at almost a right angle to its body in a similar fashion to a wren.
		The Wrentit is found throughout California in chaparral and brushy areas in forests.
		Wrentits mate for live (this could explain why they are always bickering).
	www.laspilitas.com /California_birds/Babblers/Wrentits_in_your_garden.htm (185 words)

	Wrentits of the World: A Focus Coffee Table Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Wrentits (Chamaea fasciata) themselves are thin, with bodies made for lacing through thorny scrub, and they have long, narrow, stand-up tails that pump out their bouncing ping-pong ball songs.
		A good imitation of Wrentit song is usually enough to bring both male and female into view, the teed-up male answering back defiantly.
		The Wrentit’s iris is milky white (not yellow as some books say), giving this bird a defiant expression that is its alone.
	www.prbo.org /OBSERVER/Observer113/Focus113.html (537 words)

	Wrentit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Although seldom seen, the Wrentit is one of the most common birds along the hiking trails of Torrey Pines State Reserve.
		Wrentits have a tendency to stay within dense brush even when singing.
		Wrentits mate for life and usually the pair occupies a breeding territory ranging in size from one to five acres.
	www.torreypine.org /animals/Birds/Wrentit.html (132 words)

	Wrentit - Whatbird.com
		Wrentit: Small, noisy songbird with dark gray upperparts and thick streaked, gray-brown underparts.
		Wrentit: Resident from the Columbia River on the northern border of Oregon southward along coastal chaparral into Baja California and into the Sierra Nevada foothills of California.
		● Breeding and nesting: Wrentit: Three to five blue-green eggs are laid in a neat cup nest made of bark fiber, held together by cobwebs, and hidden in a low bush.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/124/_/Wrentit.aspx (564 words)

	DISCCRS Dissertation Abstracts
		Wrentit nests initiated early in the season, when jays were nest building and egg laying, were most likely to fail.
		This resulted in many Wrentit pairs producing late-fledged young with some pairs providing prolonged post-fledging care during the winter, particularly during the drought year of 2002.
		Wrentits, especially food-supplemented pairs, scolded more when jays were nest building and egg laying.
	aslo.org /phd/disccrs/200401-4.html (552 words)

	Towhee.net - San Francisco Watch List
		Wrentit joined a very long list of species extirpated from the City.
		Perhaps a dozen people are even aware of the passing of Wrentit from the city's avifauna.
		It is in the memory of the Wrentit that the Golden Gate Audubon Society prepared this list of San Francisco's own recently extirpated and endangered species.
	www.towhee.net /birdsf/watch.html (4008 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The wrentit, a fairly common chaparral species, was selected for closer examination, due to its high abundance levels and strong association with the chaparral vegetation type.
		The results of this analysis suggest that (a) there is a significant spatial component to wrentit abundance; and (b) wrentit numbers decline with increasing levels of surrounding urbanization, regardless of spatial location.
		The spatial dependence of wrentit abundance may be attributable to natural variations in topography, microclimate and vegetation; or it may suggest the influence of land-use patterns operating at a larger scale than that which was measured in this study.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/chinadata/case_diana.htm (493 words)

	SDNHM San Diego County Bird Atlas Project
		In a study of fire ecology on which I worked for the Forest Service in the 1990, we found the Wrentit and Bushtit to be the 2nd and 11th most abundant birds in mature chaparral near Pine Valley.
		In the Pines Fire area, the Wrentit was 68th in order of abundance in 2003, 49th in 2004.
		Fortunately, the Bushtit and Wrentit are so common in unburned areas that their recovery from even the fires of 2003 seems assured.
	www.sdnhm.org /research/birdatlas/recovery.html (1491 words)

	Sylvid Warbs & Parrotbills
		Among "clade 12," and closely related to the Sylvia warblers, is the Wrentit (left) of coastal chaparral and riparian brush from southern Oregon through the California foothills to northern Baja California.
		At various times the Wrentit has been considered most closely related to bushtits, to titmice, to babblers, to Old World warblers, or to wrens; it has at various times been elevated to its own family [Chamaeidae].
		Genetic studies of the Wrentit (Cibois 2003, Burns and Barhoum 2006) have found that its closest relatives are certain Asian babblers in the genera Alcippe, Chrysomma, and Paradoxornis.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/sylvids.html (2008 words)

	Wrentit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		They spend their entire life in the region they choose during the first year of their life.
		Wrentits often hop around a bush with their tail in a cocked position.
		Pale buff throat and breast with weak, thin gray stripes.
	www.bird-friends.com /BirdPage.php?name=Wrentit (102 words)

	All About Wrentit Birds
		The Wrentit is a small Californian bird that lives in chapparal
		The Wrentit is about 5 1/4 inches, with uniform dull olive,
		The Wrentit is usually restricted to scrub and certain types
	www.petcaretips.net /wrentit.html (122 words)

	Monthly Field Journal
		Wrentit is listed as rare for all four seasons, but the I think the distribution is more complicated than that.
		For those birds are sighted, I believe they are more common in summer than in winter, but a sampling the size we have, it's hardly statistically meaningful.
		Jay Withgott posted a nice summary of Wrentit behavior from Birds of North America on SFBirds.
	home.pacbell.net /mweaton/Birding/Journal/2002/July.html (356 words)

	Audubon: Birds & Science
		Of the WatchList species, Nuttall's Woodpecker is a familiar resident of Debs Park, and tends not to breed in the surrounding urban areas.
		The same preference for native (non-planted) habitat goes for Wrentit and California Thrasher, two native-scrub specialists who maintain tiny remnant populations within Debs Park's remote canyons.
		The park's two or three Wrentits may no longer be breeding, but a California Thrasher was observed carrying food into a Lemonadeberry in late May, 2001, indicating local nesting.
	www.audubon.org /bird/watchlist/bs-bc-california.html (513 words)

	Towhee.net - Photo Gallery: Len Blumin (page 4)
		The Wrentit has a charming and perhaps old-fashioned lifesytle, spending their whole lives in a monogamous relationship and never traveling from their chosen territory, which might be only 2-3 acres.
		The birds are devoted to each other, staying close as they forage, mutually preening, and even "roost together, leaning against each other on (a) limb near (the) crown of a bush with feathers interlaced and inner legs drawn up, appearing as one ball of feathers." [Audubon Soc.
		Note the short wings, which they don't use very much, as they spend most of their time deep in the bushes hopping from branch to branch.
	www.towhee.net /gallery/blumin4.html (900 words)

	The Columbia Flyway - VAS - Backyard & Beyond
		It is a small, dark colored, secretive little bird that is hard to find due to the habitat it lives in and its nature of staying out of sight.
		The females of course have the orange bands on their chest adding another flash of color as they fly by.
		Towards the end of the day we discussed the birds we had seen and Arden and I were of course thrilled with the sighting of the Wrentit.
	www.pacifier.com /~vas/flywaybackyardnov04.html (701 words)

	Student Research
		Dino Barhoum - Dino worked on the Wrentit, an unusual bird found in chaparral habitat of California and Oregon.
		He studied the phylogeography of the species as well as the evolutionary relationships of the Wrentit to other species.
		Phylogenetic relationships of the Wrentit based on mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences.
	www.bio.sdsu.edu /pub/burns/Student_Research.html (305 words)

	phorum - OKBirds - Re: Spring songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		According to a birding friend of mine from Washington state, Wrentits are so sedentary and loath to cross open spaces that they never cross the Columbia River.
		I've heard there used to be a disjunct population of Wrentits in the coastal carolinas.
		The joke being that no one had ever seen a Wrentit fly high enough to see the underside of its wings.
	www.surfbirds.com /phorum/read.php?f=34&i=10481&t=10466 (1437 words)

	SDNHM Bird Atlas Project: Reports
		During the exceedingly dry spring of 2002, the Wrentit, Spotted Towhee, California Towhee, and Rufous-crowned Sparrow--four birds largely dependent on coastal sage scrub for breeding--experienced a nearly complete reproductive collapse.
		These four species are the foci of a multi-year study of the effects of habitat fragmentation that Doug Bolger and I are conducting through Dartmouth College, funded by the National Science Foundation.
		In comparison to 2001, the Wrentit and California Towhee, both of which place their nests in shrubs, fared especially poorly, perhaps owing to the lack of new growth and numerous dried leaves on most shrubs in their territories.
	www.sdnhm.org /research/birdatlas/wrenderings/02summer-reports.html (1194 words)

	Birds of Torrey Pines State Reserve
		Common Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) Very small plain birds that move from bush to tree in straggling flocks; constantly conversing; gray back, pale underparts; stubby bill and longish tail; nest is a long woven pouch in bush and tree.
		Wrentit (Chhamaea fasciata) Long rounded, slightly cocked tail and streaked brownish breast, with white eye; nest is a compact cup in a low bush.
		Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Large white patches on wings and tail; nest is a rootlet-lined cup in bush or dense tree.
	www.torreypine.org /animals/birds.html (471 words)

	Birds of Yosemite National Park (1954, 1963), "Wrentits," by Cyril A. Stebbins and Robert C. Stebbins
		Birds of Yosemite National Park (1954, 1963), "Wrentits," by Cyril A. Stebbins and Robert C. Stebbins
		Yosemite > Library > Birds of Yosemite > Wrentits >
		In the Yosemite region to be found chiefly at low elevation in the western part but in late summer and fall ranges up into Yosemite Valley.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/birds_of_yosemite/wrentits.html (158 words)

	eNature: FieldGuides: Species Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Uniformly brown, with faintly streaked breast and conspicuous pale eyes.
		Discussion The Wrentit spends all of its adult life within the territory chosen in its first year.
		Individuals hesitate to cross open spaces of even 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters), and it is believed that the wide Columbia River effectively stops the species from entering Washington, even though that side of the river offers a suitable habitat.
	www.enature.com /fieldguides/detail.asp?allSpecies=y&searchText=Wrentit&curGroupID=1&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=1 (184 words)

	Bird and Wildlife Photography by Jim Greaves: Wrentit used Arundo donax for nest support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Bird and Wildlife Photography by Jim Greaves: Wrentit used Arundo donax for nest support
		Wrentit feeds grub to recently hatched young in nest built on Arundo donax.
		Half mile south of Shell Road in Ventura River bottom willow woodland, Ventura County.
	mysite.verizon.net /res1u8vm/aliens_wrentit.html (213 words)

	Palomar & Laguna Mountains with Lud, July 2002
		In the foothills we had our first good looks at Oak Titmouse and had a few surprises, like a pair of Yellow Warblers and Great Horned Owls calling.
		As we neared the vehicle again we suddenly had Cassin's calling again but this time it stopped to preen for about five minutes and we had great looks in the scope!
		We birded our way down the slope still trying to get a look at Wrentit that never did happen.
	www.southwestbirders.com /sd020713_lud.htm (307 words)

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