Me, same as Tintola, normal, had no problems with rings, all my young WWW are closed banded !E Orix wrote:Tintola
When you ring your Wrens do you put the ring on in the normal part of the leg, foot to 1st joint or higher up 1st joint to thigh.
The later is where I would normally ring Wrens as they have less chance of getting snagged as they scramble about in the under growth.
With the last lot two years ago I had 9 males and three females and everyone else had mostly males or were looking for females. Anyhow, I ended up losing all females and the mother-hen during the January heat wave, was left with four males and couldn't get a females for more then two years. This time I DNA sexed seven young (even the ones I lost before fledging) the results were all females! She's sitting again I just hope I get at least one male.Tintola wrote:The Red-backs one nest where the chicks just disappeared at about five days, second nest are about four days old at the moment. Last year six out of six dna-ed were hens. How do you sex the White-winged without dna sexing? Beak colour or lores around the eyes? Or ???
How to sex them: All of the young fledge with the black tip of the beak. By the time their tails are fully grown some of the black will start disappearing to eventually clear up completely in females. In males the black tip never clears up, in fact, after about 12 months or so it becomes darker to eventually turn completely black.
Gary once mentioned something similar, I'm not sure if that's what he meant, I thought that was pretty much "hit and miss" but no, now I am 100% certain they can be sexed after about 8 weeks or so.