Wrens are some of my favourite birds, because of this little bird.
I love the face on this one, together with the pose, it’s very roguish and Han Solo. ;)
quotetheunquotesays
Hi rq
Glad you enjoyed the photo.
Re: Fairywrens -- yes, awesome! But a different family; the Australian “wrens” are quite a bit different that the “new world+ Eurasia” wrens,
I think they were just given that common name because some European collector saw that they were small and had sticky-up tails, and so named it after the bird he knew that was most similar.
(This sort of thing happens all the time in ornithology, c.f. Australian “robins”, North American “sparrows”, North and South American “orioles” etc, etc.)
kestrelsays
Wonderful! And carrying nesting material too, perhaps? I have house wrens nesting in one of my bluebird boxes. They make a great companion in the garden and I like to hear them.
rqsays
“the”
Yeh, I know that, but it got me hooked on wrens. :)
(Similarly, here, the starling and the blackbird are both considered strazds (mājas, melnais) when they’re quite different birds.)
Ice Swimmersays
A stylish dinosaur. Wren is peukaloinen in Finnish, peukalo means thumb, so it’s something like thumbling or thumb-length. This species is tyrannipeukaloinen according to the Pffft (tyrant wren).
Patricia Phillipssays
Yesterday, while walking on a local trail through an oak forest by an old quarry, I heard a woodpecker calling. I stopped to look and overhead flew a pileated woodpecker! So beautiful. I hadn’t actually seen one for several years.
Wrens are some of my favourite birds, because of this little bird.
I love the face on this one, together with the pose, it’s very roguish and Han Solo. ;)
Hi rq
Glad you enjoyed the photo.
Re: Fairywrens -- yes, awesome! But a different family; the Australian “wrens” are quite a bit different that the “new world+ Eurasia” wrens,
I think they were just given that common name because some European collector saw that they were small and had sticky-up tails, and so named it after the bird he knew that was most similar.
(This sort of thing happens all the time in ornithology, c.f. Australian “robins”, North American “sparrows”, North and South American “orioles” etc, etc.)
Wonderful! And carrying nesting material too, perhaps? I have house wrens nesting in one of my bluebird boxes. They make a great companion in the garden and I like to hear them.
“the”
Yeh, I know that, but it got me hooked on wrens. :)
(Similarly, here, the starling and the blackbird are both considered strazds (mājas, melnais) when they’re quite different birds.)
A stylish dinosaur. Wren is peukaloinen in Finnish, peukalo means thumb, so it’s something like thumbling or thumb-length. This species is tyrannipeukaloinen according to the Pffft (tyrant wren).
Yesterday, while walking on a local trail through an oak forest by an old quarry, I heard a woodpecker calling. I stopped to look and overhead flew a pileated woodpecker! So beautiful. I hadn’t actually seen one for several years.