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Playback of Bird Calls Benefits Some Birds

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The bottom line is that we do not have enough information or research to give a definitive answer as to whether to not it’s harmful to birds. Once you get them, they can be very loyal tenants but I always dreaded someone with very little bird knowledge coming in to purchase a Purple Martin house.

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I and the Bird: What is a Wren?

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Our friends in the Old World can claim the seminal member of its clan known definitively as Wren. But for those of us in the Americas, the cup runs over with species of Troglodytes. Which is perhaps why the name wren is applied to several unrelated species in the old World. Bicolored Wren , photo by Scott Winton.

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