The little brown bird that we have long called the winter wren nests in forests across northern North America and Eurasia (plus a bit in North Africa). Because it is the only wren on the other side of ...

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 ...

While Ohio birds such as the Baltimore oriole and scarlet tanager are large and colorful, the winter wren is so small and dark that it's sometimes difficult to find. It's one of our smallest birds ...

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 ...

There’s a welcome sound absent from my yard this spring and I’m not sure why. Bill Moyer of Coopersburg reports the same thing. “I have eight bird boxes out primarily for wrens,” he writes. “In past ...

When I hike the nearby tiny portion of the North Country Trail, now declared a national park, by the way, the two things I am always sure to carry are my cellphone and binoculars. The phone because it ...

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Doesn't everyone love wrens? Here, three species brighten our days. Year-round, only one stays. Another comes in summer to raise families. Now, with winter setting in, the one most rare has arrived.

“There is madness about thee, and joy divine In that song of thine.” THE song of the winter wren is something that must be heard to be appreciated ; words can no more describe it than they can paint ...

Clean-out doors in the bluebird boxes at Hickory Grove Park were closed earlier in March. They were left open all winter to discourage deer mice and house sparrows from moving in. A few bluebirds hang ...

In 1953, famed naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, who originated the field guide series bearing his name, took his British colleague, James Fisher, on a 30,000-mile tour of North America. They recounted ...