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 call ...

While many birds curtail, so to speak, their nesting efforts during the summer, the house wren does not. They just keep going. Let's take a closer look at this clamorous, nonstop nester. This ...

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 ...

A huge number of folklore traditions and rituals have grown up around the little wren, especially at this time of year ...

Just about now, local neighborhoods are being graced by another sign of spring: a long, bubbly, churring song. Full of enthusiasm and eager to attract a mate, the male house wren arrives in early ...

For those who aren’t from the Kingdom, the concept of Wren Day may go right over your head. Of course, St Stephen’s Day is ...

To begin with, Marjory, I’m sorry to hear about your little bluebirds. The adults will likely re-nest, but it’s still no fun to find dead baby birds. I’m also sorry if I spelled your name wrong. After ...

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 ...

A: No one knows for sure what causes baldness in birds. And often in the literature that I read, the condition has not been well studied. Fortunately, in most cases new head feathers grow within a few ...

Two concrete wrens, pictured in 1966, sat outside the WREN building on the northeastern corner of 8th and Vermont Street. Fifty-eight years ago, in the early hours of a freezing December night, a ...

It’s hard to blame James Mallery II for getting excited about storage space. “In each wing we have a nice extra storage space,” he said, opening a door labeled “storage” to a dry, clean room with ...