Species: Bewick’s Wren
Most recent capture date: 12/24/2022
Earliest capture date: 5/15/2022
Age: about 8 months old
Notes: This youngster’s bill is Not Right: instead of the upper and lower mandibles meeting at one point, the lower mandible is too short and the upper mandible is too long and slightly decurved. His bill has been like this since we first saw him in May, which is a good sign: clearly he has figured out how to use it well enough to survive, so as long as it doesn’t get any stranger, he should be okay. We have caught him about once a month since May, and I’m always a little surprised he’s survived – but on this latest capture he was quite fat, so I can probably stop worrying about him!