Feisty Nesters
If you walk around Lake Jonah, you may notice the human made bird boxes put up near the trees. But if you look closely, you could see one of the residents that has just moved in. The northern house wren is a feisty nester, being very good parents and very bad news for other nesting birds. Aggressive during mating season, they will defend their territory at any cost and even invade other birds' nests at the chance to take their home, leading to higher egg mortality rates for chickadees and blue birds.
AP Biology and Bird Boxes
In the spring of 2026, Mr Amos's AP Biology classes built bird boxes to try and encourage native cavity nesters, like eastern blue birds and tree swallows, to return to campus. Bird boxes can take up to 8 years to be noticed by native birds, so the classes were thrilled to watch two northern house wren families and a downy woodpecker family move in!
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