Bewick's Wren

Description: 5 1/2" Gray-brown above, white below with white eyebrow and long fan-shaped tail tipped with white	Habitat: Brushy areas, thick undergrowth, clearings, gardens, orchards, fencerows, suburbs, stream edges, open scrubby woods, cactus and mesquite, chaparral.
Nesting: 5-7 brown-spotted white eggs in a stick nest lined with leaves, grass and feathers placed in almost any available cavity, including woodpecker holes, old shoes, brush piles, and flower pots	Range: breeds locally from Canada south to Mexico and Gulf states, winters south to Gulf Coast
Voice: loud melodious song with usual wren-like warble, also reminiscent of a Song Sparrow	Diet: insects mostly including spiders, forages along ground and in trees

Notes: Often seen flicking its tail sideways, male may build crude "dummy" nests, occasionally attack nests of other Bewick's Wrens and of other species nesting nearby, named by Audubon for Thomas Bewick, English naturalist, resembles larger Carolina Wren, but entirely different song and at close range shows white in outer tail feathers

When present in Oklahoma: present statewide year-round, more abundant during summer