Wren
By Michael J. Seago
Wrens are daily visitors to our garden often remaining active for some time after sunset, constantly examining an ivy-covered wall. Tiny, pugnacious and mouselike they are almost as familiar as robins.
Wren
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
small, plump perching songbird of the family Troglodytidae. There are about 60 wren species, and all except one are restricted to the New World.
Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
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Wrens are surprisingly loud despite their tiny stature. Singing is most important at dawn, since this is when intruding males may attempt to steal territory.
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Winter Wren
Both Sexes
Chestnut brown upperparts, and pale below.
Bay Wren Thryothorus nigricapillus
Described by: Sclater, P. L. (1860)
Alternate common name(s): Black-capped Wren
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus (click for a bigger version)
Rock Wrens have a range from southwestern Canada through the western part of the United States and down to Central America.
Rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus
Identification Tips:
Length: 4.75 inches
Thin, slightly decurved bill
Pale gray supercilium
Underparts pale gray becoming buffy toward tail
Upperparts gray with minute black and white spots ...
ROCK WREN.
[Rock Wren.]
TROGLODYTES OBSOLETUS, Say.
[Salpinctes obsoletus.] ...
Rock Wren
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Marsh Wren
Cistothorus palustris (Wilson)
Status Rare vagrant, very rare in summer. Breeds. The first recorded in Nova Scotia was collected by Harold F. Tufts near Port Joli, Queens County, on 15 November 1949.
Marsh Wren
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds. The need for these reports was identified by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
House Wren Photos
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House Wren 1 ...
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)
aka Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus) ...
Rock Wren ( Salpinctes obsoletus )
Rock Wren, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Near San Antonio, New Mexico
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...
Cactus Wren in Cholla
What better place for an image of a Cactus Wren than on a cactus? Cactus Wrens are little birds that make a loud, distinctive noise that makes them sound much bigger than they are.
House Wren
The house wren is one of the most common birds in North America, and it's knows to build its nest in some unusual places. Learn how to attract a house wren to your yard, and listen to its song.
Photo: Roland Jordahl ...
Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) is a local resident in Himalayas. Size: 9 cm ...
The Rock Wren (Salpinctes obsoletus) is a resident from southwestern Canada south through the western United States, through proper habitat in Mexico, all the way to Costa Rica. It usually prefers dry, rocky hillsides.
Wren taking Dust Bath
This pictures shows the Wren a little clearer. While we were eating dinner my wife noticed t...
Stafford County
08/10/10 ...
The wren population on Stephens Island was, in fact, the last remnant of a species that once lived throughout New Zealand. It was the third of the six known species of New Zealand wrens to become extinct.
Rock Wren Behaviour
No observations regarding Rock Wren behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Rock Wrens ...
Grass Wren
Cistothorus platensis falklandicus
Local Name: Short-billed Marsh Wren ...
Largest wren in United States; 7-9 inches long. Both sexes with dull, rusty crown, streaked back, heavily spotted breast, tawny-colored sides and belly; wing and tail feathers barred black and white conspicuous broad white stripe over eye.
The Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) is the largest wren native to the United States (7 to 8 inches) whose distinguishing marks include heavily spotted breast and white eye stripe.
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)
One of our most familiar birds, Carolina Wrens are found around any house, often nesting in unusual places, such as sheds or even partially used empty bags of potting soil.
Chapel Hill, NC 12/11/05.
Carolina Wren
CAROLINA WREN
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Thryothorus ludovicianus ...
Marsh Wren
(Cistothorus palustris)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Likely but not confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed ...
Diet The cactus wren forages for food on the ground. It uses its long bill to turn over things on the ground. It eats ants, beetles, grasshoppers, wasps, fruits and seeds. Sometimes it will eat small frogs and lizards.
Secretive, usu seen in low tangles of veg, around logs, etc. Habitually teeters and bobs. May immerse entire head to obtain aquatic insects. Widespread in Eurasia; only member of wren family found in Old World where known as "the Wren." ...
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The true wrens are members of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae containing 79 species.
Wren, Cactus Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus Found: North America (southwestern USA, Mexico)
Photographed by: 1, 2) Michael J Thompson at Guadalupe Mountains National Park
3) Alan D Wilson at Martin Homestead Refuge, Edinburg, Texas
4) ...
Wren
The wren is a tiny brown bird, although it is heavier, less slim, than the even smaller goldcrest. It is dumpy, almost rounded, with a fine bill, quite long legs and toes, very short round wings and a... More...
Birds by family ...
Sedge Wren (Cistothorus paltensia)
Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Gnatcathers and Kinglets ...
Zapata wren (Ferminia cerverai)
The Zapata wren is a small, energetic bird found only in a small region of swamps in western Cuba. The short wings make it a poor flier;... More 4 Images 1 Video ...
The Wren, also known as Winter Wren or European Wren, is one of the smallest birds in Europe. It looks quite funny: a round body and a very small tail, held upright most of the time.
House Wren
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Sedge Wren
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Zapata wren (Ferminia cerverai): A small grayish brown bird that lives in dense shrubs of the Zapata Swamp.
bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae): The world's smallest bird has one of its strongholds in and near the Zapata Swamp.
Yucatan Wren (Campylorhynchus yucatanicus)
Zapata Wrens (Ferminia cerverai): Mangoverde
FAIRYWENS & GRASSWRENS ...
Carolina Wren Range
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Fast Facts
Type: Bird Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 6 years Size: 5.5 in (14 cm) Weight: Less than 0.75 oz (20 g) Did you know?
House Wren
What is your favorite bird? Silly question really, but birding along Mines Road today we stopped first at Murietta's Well, and at the bridge we were serenaded by this House Wren (Troglodytes aedon).
The Bewick's Wren occurs all year in the coastal states of the western United States and in the southern states west of the Mississippi River.
Marian's Marsh Wren and Worthington's Marsh Wren, permanent Florida residents, are species of special concern.
We also saw House Wren, Black-throated Finch, Flightless Steamer Duck, Upland Goose, Kelp Goose, Dolphin Gull, Brown Skua, Common Snipe and Ruddy-necked Goose.
Variegated Fairy-wren
Variegated Lizardfish at Agincourt Reef
Variegated Wren, male
Velvet ants
Velvet Worm
Velvet worm
Velvetfish, Aploactisoma milesii (Richardson, 1850)
Ventral surface of a Wide-body Pipefish
Ventral view of a larval cusk ...
Gould not unnaturally took it for a Wren, when establishing the genus to which it is now referred; but some ten years after Johannes Muller found that Scytalopus, together with the true Tapaculo, which was first described by Kittlitz in 1830, ...
Not only the Cactus Wren but the House Finch, Roadrunner, and Mockingbird, among others, recognize that cacti deter predators and select cacti for nest sites when possible.
Arizona - Cactus wren
Arkansas - Mockingbird
California - California valley quail (Lophortyx californica)
Colorado - Prairie Lark-Finch
Connecticut - Robin
Delaware - Blue hen chicken
Florida - Mockingbird
Georgia - Brown thrasher ...
This has resulted in population declines for various wren, swallow, and bluebird populations. Starlings are very gregarious birds, flocking at all times with other starlings. These birds breed in bunches, feed in flocks, and migrate in masses.
Nesting sites and rookeries (places where birds that live in colonies nest together) for: red-winged blackbird, marsh wren, wood duck, herons, egrets, pelicans ...
Distinguishing Features - Stocky, sparrow-sized, wren-shaped bird, about 19 cm long; overall colouration, slate-grey; tail, stubby; eyelids and feet, white. Both sexes similar.
Habitat ...
The cactus wren and California thrasher often build their nests in the buckhorn cholla. The gila woodpeckers and gilded flickers chop burros in the long arms of the Saguaro Cactus.
What are the main threats to cacti?
Males defend their territory with a lively, liquid series of trilled notes, not unlike the song of a wren. Using grasses and sometimes mammal hairs, females build their nests upon mosses.
while others construct nests, often quite large, of twigs and grasses.
The male marsh wren of North America, often builds several "dummy nests"
before the female accepts one and the pair settles down to breed.
George Huntington
"They Love the nectar from my Humming bird feeder and I think the female does not have the sharp contrast of yellow & BlackThey share the feeder with Wren's, yellow and red breasted larks, and other small bird's." ...
 See also: Sparrow, Warbler, Swallow, Eagle, Finch
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