Wrens are a family, Troglodytidae, of small brown passerine birds. The family includes 96 species and is divided into 19 genera. All species are restricted to the New World except for the Eurasian wren that is widely distributed in the Old World.

A plain brown bird with an effervescent voice, the Northern House Wren is a common backyard bird across most of the U.S. and southern Canada. Listen for its rush-and-jumble song in summer and you’ll find this species zipping through shrubs and low tree branches, snatching at insects.

Learn the 8 different types of WRENS found in the United States, and how to identify them. How many of these wren species have YOU seen?

Very active and inquisitive, bouncing about with its short tail held up in the air, pausing to sing a rich bubbling song, it adds a lively spark to gardens and city parks despite its lack of bright colors. Various forms of this wren are found from central Canada to southern South America.

Wrens are some of the most energetic and vocal birds in North America. These small, brown songbirds are known for their upright tails, lively movements, and loud, complex songs that carry through forests, marshes, and backyards.

2022年11月3日 · Get to know several types of wrens with big personalities and even bigger singing voices. Carolina wren on a branch with a worm. Despite their cryptic brown coloration, wrens are hard to overlook. Two of the most well-known types of wrens in North America are the Carolina wren and the house wren.

Wrens are unremarkable-looking songbirds with big personalities. They are brown, relatively small, and rather plump birds with distinctive upright tails and big voices. Wrens are New World birds, which means they live in North and South America, except for the Eurasian Wren, which is Old World and occurs in Europe and Africa.

4 天之前 · 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.

The Wren is a tiny brown bird, although it's heavier and not as slim as the even smaller Goldcrest. It's almost round in shape with a fine bill, quite long legs and toes, very short round wings and a short, narrow tail, which is sometimes stuck up vertically.

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.