A familiar backyard bird, the House Wren was named long ago for its tendency to nest around human homes or in birdhouses. Very active and inquisitive, bouncing about with its short tail held up in...
The Journal News: House wrens — just the bird for your garden
Insects make up 97 percent of a house wren’s diet Entice them with a bird house Clean out the bird house in spring My friend extols the virtues of house wrens for one’s garden. Please explain. Your ...
Early this spring, I hung a small bird box from a pergola rafter ten feet from my kitchen window. I had high hopes that either Carolina chickadees or house wrens (both are cavity-nesters) would ...
The house wren takes a different approach than other cavity-nesting birds when it comes to claiming bird houses, with the male arriving a week or two before the female. Nick Lund photo/Maine Audubon ...
Wicked Local: Ask the BIRD FOLKS: House wrens sometimes seek second homes
The northern house wren (Troglodytes aedon) presents remarkable gusto in a small package. The tiny, energetic bird, with its inconspicuous brownish-gray plumage, is the most common of at least nine ...
Wren, (family Troglodytidae), any of approximately 85 species of small, chunky, brownish birds (order Passeriformes). The family originated in the Western Hemisphere, and only one species, Troglodytes troglodytes, which breeds circumpolarly in temperate regions, has spread to the Old World. This
The Eurasian Wren is a mousy little bird of backyard gardens, but it is also an avian dynamo that can survive above treeline in the Alps and has colonized remote North Atlantic islands. This tiny species delivers an amazingly loud song for its size, weaving together whistles and trills at breakneck speed. Eurasian Wren is most at home in woodlands with dense undergrowth, where it scurries ...