Species: Bewick’s Wren
Most recent capture date: 4/03/2022
Age: 7-9 days old

​Notes: We have a few nestboxes at the banding station, and this year a pair of Bewick’s Wrens took advantage of one. We disturbed them just long enough to put a band on this chick and their one sibling (there were also three unhatched eggs in the nest, an unusually high proportion of failed eggs), then popped them back in the nestbox to continue to be cared for by their parents. We hope we’ll see them again in the nets one day! (Don’t miss this chick’s big fuzzy eyebrow tufts, a classic feature of baby songbirds.)