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E Orix
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Does anyone on the Forum keep White Browed Scrub Wrens, and are they available and are they easily sexed
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Tintola
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I keep both White-browed and Yellow-throated Scrubwrens. They are available and somewhat easily sexed once they are sexually mature as the hens are a lighter brown around the face. You are more likely to get some after they have finished breeding which starts soon up until about October. Yellow-throated can be sexed as soon as they fledge.
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I believe we have a few WB scrubwrens a work - we don't see them all the time, so they could be wild birds getting in through a hole - or maybe they're just sneaky like their wild cousins :P
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Tiaris
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Yellow-throateds live & breed here on our property. They have their nests hanging over the small creeks in rainforest gullies & feed in the undergrowth on the ridges.
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Mortisha
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The wild ones here are too cheeky and very tame.
Real little characters.
They will always come inside if a door or window is left open.
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From his location it would be assumed he was expecting a cooked breakfast. :whoa:
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finchbreeder wrote:From his location it would be assumed he was expecting a cooked breakfast. :whoa:
LML
.... Must be a male.
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Tintola
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Female actually, by the look of the face colour.
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Tintola wrote:Female actually, by the look of the face colour.
So she's come in to help with the washing up. Didn't you know that's why they're called scrub wrens ? :wtf: :lol:
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Hahahahaha A link to see the differences. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q ... ACA#imgrc=_
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