DRAWING A sedge wren perches next to a prairie cone flower.

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When Helen Dancey of Valparaiso began watching the birds in a meadow at Sunset Farm, she got two surprises. First was the realization that among the many grassland birds she was seeing were as many as 10 pairs of sedge wrens, a bird listed as ''threatened" in Indiana.

The largest group of sedge wrens on record here was a flock of 50 seen in ...

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