It looks far too tiny to produce such a song, a liquid glissando that rings through the woods. The winter wren is a little brown bird with a very big song. It’s a demitasse of a bird, weighing less ...

The winter wren is a misnamed bird, at least in our neck of the woods. Here, this bird is a spring wren phenomenon. The Red River Valley is pretty well established as a northward migration route for ...

April is the time of year when we can enjoy the chirping of a variety of birds. From mid-February through May, I head to the mountains and forests whenever possible to photograph beautiful birds in ...

Wren [which] creeps like a woods mouse … in and out of brush heaps … cautious and furtive … an absurd little creature …its stub tail turned up over its back at the least provocation …until it seems as ...

On these cool, late autumn days, when most birds have ceased singing and a hush has fallen over the landscape, the Carolina wren still enlivens our neighborhoods with vibrant, full-throated song.

The smallest wren of Iowa also is the most skilled singer. The long trills interspersed with warbles give the winter wren an unmistakable and beautiful song. Living up to its namesake, this wren ...

In late morning on a bitterly cold day this week, with the outside temperature at 26 degrees, I heard the unmistakable “teakettle, teakettle” song of a Carolina wren from somewhere in my yard in ...