This winter I WILL locate a winter wren. That’s my plan, anyway, with one of my goals for the year being to find some of the Boulder County birds that I have never seen. The boreal owl, which lives in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...