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WRENS

Family Troglodytidae

Chapter author: F. Keith Barker

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Brewer, D., and B. K. Mackay. 2001. Wrens, dippers and thrashers: A guide to the wrens, dippers, and thrashers of the world. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Brumfield, R. T., and A. P. Capparella. 1996. Genetic differentiation and taxonomy in the House Wren species group. Condor 98:547-556.

Gish, S. L., and E. S. Morton. 1981. Structural adaptations to local habitat acoustics in Carolina Wren songs. Zeitschrift fuer Tierpsychologie 56:74-84.

Kroodsma, D. E. 1977. Correlates of song organization among North American wrens. American Naturalist 111:995-1008.

Kroodsma, D. E., and R. A. Canady. 1985. Differences in repertoire size, singing behavior, and associated neuroanatomy among Marsh Wren populations have a genetic basis. Auk 102:439-446.

Kroodsma, D. E. 1989. Two North American song populations of the Marsh Wren reach distributional limits in the central Great Plains. Condor 91:332-340.

Kroodsma, D. E., W.-C. Liu, E. Goodwin, and P. A. Bedell. 1999. The ecology of song improvisation as illustrated by North American Sedge Wrens. Auk 116:373-386.

Pribil, S., and J. Picman. 1991. Why House Wrens destroy clutches of other birds: a support for the nest site competition hypothesis. Condor 93:184-185.

Sheldon, F. H., and F. B. Gill. 1996. A reconsideration of songbird phylogeny, with emphasis on the evolution of titmice and their sylvioid relatives. Systematic Biology 45:473-495.

Sibley, C. G., and J. E. Ahlquist. 1990. Phylogeny and classification of birds: a study in molecular evolution. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Simons, L. S., and L. H. Simons. 1990. Experimental studies of nest-destroying behavior by Cactus Wrens. Condor 92:855-860.

Verner, J., and G. H. Engelsen. 1970. Territories, multiple nest building, and polygyny in the Long-billed Marsh Wren. Auk 87:557-567.