Bewick's

Alamy A Carolina Wren Reading further, I learned that it was probably a Carolina Wren since the Bewick's Wren is uncommon in the Northeast.

Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

She told me she was going to pass them along to a knowledgeable friend, and added, I did once see a Bewick's wren.

Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

A sighting of a Bewick's Wren in the New York area would be unusual.

Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

No bird more deserves the protection of man than Bewick's Wren.

Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

"A Bewick's Wren around here would be pretty extraordinary," she replied.

Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

But based on my highly suspect powers of identification it looked more like the Bewick's Wren in the picture.

Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

I could not help thinking of the account of the Weasel in Bewick's Quadrupeds: 'It passes the greatest part of the day in sleeping, and usually employs the night in exercise and eating' [2] And though, my Lord, I feel myself a weasel's superior still, I do not think that the enjoyment would be improved by a repetition, I felt myself out of my element.

Letter 86 2009

So at Shapwick Heath I caught up with five Bewick's swans, all the way from Siberia, and a great white egret, once a rare visitor from eastern Europe, but now resident here in Somerset.

Birdwatch: Black redstart 2011

But on the following page, this description of the Bewick's Wren did.

Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Aelian's On the Characteristics of Animals, a compendium of animal lore taking up three volumes of the Loeb Classical Library, is a wonderfully entertaining collection of zoological hearsay situated on the credibility scale about midway between Bewick's sometimes faulty History of Quadrupeds which conflates gorillas and orangutans and Aesop's Fables.

Antiquities 2010