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More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Wrenn. This darling novel came to my attention by doing a search of which books were set in Portland, OR for a book challenge I'm doing this year.
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It also being an historical fiction novel, I was hooked. I had briefly considered writing a similar book myself set in Portland, so I was excited to read this and discover what the author had found to write on in our early history in the PNW. The story runs a bit slow, perhaps, and the characters are just a touch stale, but overall it's a solid piece and This darling novel came to my attention by doing a search of which books were set in Portland, OR for a book challenge I'm doing this year.
The story runs a bit slow, perhaps, and the characters are just a touch stale, but overall it's a solid piece and interesting for the historical setting. One of the things I liked best about it was that the character Stephen is such a psychological mix of both of his parents. I like when authors are clever enough to not make a child too different or too much the same to their fictional parents, and when they can use this effectively in the story.
In fact, I'm not sure I've noticed it before, so this may either be the first book I've read that way, or I'm just picking up on it more from my current Psychology class, or both, but either way, it lends a little something extra to think about that I appreciated.
I might complain that too little time was spent fleshing out the character and relationship of the actual hero of the book, but the book was about Wrenn, after all, so maybe it makes sense. I still would have liked to have seen more from him. And, sadly, Egypt House was not a real historical place in Portland, as far as I can discover.
Once he is done, the female inspects at the nest; but if she does not approve of the construction, she will throw any unwanted sticks to the ground. After this process, the female lines the nest. House wrens are feisty and pugnacious animals considering their tiny size. They are known to occasionally destroy the eggs of other birds nesting in their territory by puncturing the eggshell.
Females that sang more songs to conspecifics that were simulated by playback lost fewer eggs to ovicide by other wrens. Female bird song in this species is therefore thought to have a function in competition and is not only displayed by males. Depending on the exact population, the house wrens' clutch is usually between two and eight red-blotched cream-white eggs, [13] weighing about 1. Only the female incubates these, for around 12—19 days, [13] and she will every now and then leave the nest for various reasons.
While she is on the nest, the male provisions her with food. The young, which like all passerines hatch almost naked and helpless , take another 15—19 days or so to fledge [14]. They are being fed by both parents, and need plenty of food given their tiny size see also Bergmann's Rule. As the young near fledging, the parents spend much of their time procuring food for them. Brood loss due to predation was found to be light in the Southern Andean Yungas , with predation of nestling young being almost insignificant.
Adults away from the nests can usually avoid these predators although both small hawks and owls occasionally take free-flying adult wrens. Migrant populations are nesting within 6 weeks of returning from winter quarters, leaving theoretically time for a second brood.
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In Washington, D. Yet rural nestlings grew at a faster rate than their suburban counterparts. In addition, suburban parents spent less time brooding sitting on the nest compared to rural parents. Such results suggest that suburban backyard habitats offer house wrens food for nestlings that is inferior in either quality or quantity to what rural habitats offer. Food items may, for example, be smaller in suburban habitats, and force adults to make more trips to the box. In South Temperate Argentina, southern house wrens dispersed more frequently between-seasons than within a season, with females dispersing more often than males.
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Widowed and single males dispersed more frequently than paired males, whilst within-season divorce increased the breeding success of females but not males. The house wren may have been displaced somewhat in some northern parts of its range by the introduction of the house sparrow , but is still common and widespread throughout most of the Americas. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN , [1] though this would certainly not hold true for several of the island population if they turn out to be true species.
Some taxa, especially from the Lesser Antilles , are rare and highly endangered or possibly already extinct. Several factors seem to have contributed to a varying degree to the decline of these birds, namely habitat destruction , predation by introduced mongooses , and hurricanes :. The Saint Vincent house wren Troglodytes aedon musicus of Saint Vincent was close to extinction in the mid-late 20th century; it has since recovered and today is not uncommon [5]. As remarked above, these are variously placed in T. The image was engraved and colored by the Robert Havell, London workshops. Previous owner's name; pages.
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