wrentit

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wren·tit

(rĕn′tĭt′)

A small grayish-brown songbird (Chamaea fasciata) resembling both a wren and a titmouse, inhabiting coastal scrub and chaparral from Oregon to Baja California.

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One was purportedly collected by von Bloeker in February 1932, but on a day on which he reported collecting several questionable birds (e.g., Wrentit and Western Bluebird, both otherwise unknown from Ballona), possibly the result of a labeling error.

Annotated checklist of extirpated, reestablished, and newly-colonized avian taxa of the Ballona Valley, Los Angeles County, California

After leaving the Hilton at 4:30 a.m., Pettey's bus, with 38 people aboard, headed to Florence to give visiting easterners their first looks at such Western birds as wrentit and Western snowy plover.

Bird call

The wrentit i sometimes called the voice of the chaparral; its call sounds like a Ping-Pong ball bouncing in ever-smaller arcs.