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Sedge Wren -
(Cistothorus platensis) 

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Identification

  • Small songbird
  • Brown above with short tail
  • Streaked crown and back
  • Lighter and plain below
  • Pale line above eye
  • 4-5" (10-12 cm.)

Habitat

  • Marsh, sedge meadow
  • Grasslands, hayfields

Additional Information

  • Common migrant and summmer resident
  • Sings from top of grass stalk
  • Otherwise secretive, flies a short distance
         and then drops
  • Erratic nester -- may show up in an area
         one year and not the next
  • Habitat specialist --depends on grassland
  • Wisconsin species of special concern

Sedge Wren perched on wetland grasses

Sedge wren looking back over its shoulder 

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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