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More than a few groups of birds around the world have been given names with wren in it, almost as if the sight of a very small and active bird automatically associates with the small Winter Wren of England where most of the namers originated. There are antwrens of South America, wren-babblers of South East [...]

Despite regularly hearing their bubbling song emanating from undergrowth and the fact that they are widespread and common I have never managed to get a really good picture of a House Wren.  Whenever one would show itself to me at close range I wouldn’t have my camera or the light would be bad or a stick would [...]

On a recent visit to Central Park I chanced upon a singing House Wren Troglodytes aedon and followed it back to a hole in a dead stub of a tree.  It was actively removing tiny wood chips that had probably been there since the hole was excavated.  If I had to guess I would say [...]

I was exploring the marvelous Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, California, and was, as always when I visit this jewel of a wetland complex, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of birds that would have the rare bird alerts and listservs humming should they show up in New York.  Then a little brown bird [...]

Now that the Winter Wren has been torn asunder and we have two species to deal with in North America, the Winter Wren in the east and the Pacific Wren in the west, we here in the eastern United States have to be on top of our game to get some records of wintering Pacific [...]

June is in full flower now and as we ease, or in some tragic cases are swept into summer, things, by which I mean birdy things, are slowing down dramatically. When visiting your favorite birding haunts, be sure to have a plan or you’ll be doing more bug and butterfly watching than bird watching. That’s [...]

At the tail end of my birding expedition today I was fortunate enough to have a close encounter with an extremely confiding, cooperative, and curious Carolina Wren. I had just arrived at the water hole at Forest Park and was sitting on a log watching White-throated Sparrows forage in the leaves when the wren flew [...]