House wrens measure 4 3/4 inches long with a wingspan of 6 inches. Look for a bird with a brown body and narrow dark bars or stripes on its wings and tail. Learn how to identify and attract a ...

Learn how to identify Carolina wrens and house wrens. As you might already know, wrens aren’t too picky about nesting sites. As Kenn and Kimberly note, any cavity from mailboxes to jean pockets ...

Dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song, the house wren is a common summer inhabitant of scrublands and woodland edges throughout much of North America. Variation in plumage and ...

Discover nature this week with Missouri wrens. Wrens are among the smallest songbirds, yet they make their presence known in ...

The wrens have been single-minded in their quest for twigs and other nesting materials. By the end of the month, there could be as many as 10 baby birds inside the house. That is what I’d been ...

The house wren nest box is empty, but my heart is full. The annual wren nesting at Mt. Hoo has been a success. For seven years now a tiny camera has allowed my wife and I to watch this miracle ...

dark wren known from the house wren by a much stubbier tail, a light line over the eye and a dark, heavily barred belly." It is mouselike, staying near the ground and often bobbing its head and ...

Each year, a painted gourd made to house a wren family is hung on a metal pole in our yard. I am told it was specifically built for those chirpy little creatures, each of which, our bird book ...