Species: Marsh Wren
Most recent capture date: 11/14/2021
Age: less than seven months old

​Notes: This species is common in wetlands in our area, but since our banding station isn’t in a wetland (except sometimes when it rains a lot…), we rarely catch them. This is just the 14th Marsh Wren we have caught in the last ten years. I have most often experienced Marsh Wrens as an emphatic angry sound coming from inside a dense clump of reeds. It’s a pity that they like to hide, because they are gorgeous: that loudly striped tail, the dramatic black-and-white mini-cape.