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Habitats
Shallow standing water with dense emergent cattail and bulrush cover.
Field facts
HabitatLake bays, impoundments, wet basins
RangeStatewide
When to lookLoudest with birds April to June
StatusCommon; often degraded by hybrid cattail (Indiana DNR / IUCN Red List)
Look-alikesSedge meadow, Phragmites stand
Field note: Marsh wrens build a dozen dummy nests for each real one.
Lesson
Watching responsibly
Watch from dikes and blinds; entering flushes nesting birds off eggs.
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