Wrens are one of my favorite groups of birds. They are small, cute, and like to hide from us. That makes them challenging. But they also have songs that explode from cover and tell us which species ...

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 ...

More than 60% of all grassland habitats in North America have been lost, according to the 2019 North American Grassland and Birds Report by the National Audubon Society. Much of it is due to ...

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 ...

As I walked along the Bethabara Park greenway paralleling Mill Creek, a little brown mouse of a bird popped up from the roots of a fallen tree. Indeed, I might have mistaken it for a mouse except for ...

Charismatic cactus wrens are once again thriving in a nature preserve near Laguna Beach, their whirring, rattling calls ending years of silence for the species. The wrens were transplanted, complete ...

A new year of backyard birding begins with a bald eagle sighting, record bird counts, the arrival of a Carolina wren named ...

Recently, I received a telephone call from Marilyn Otten reporting that she had seen a Carolina wren, a new species for her yard on Harding Place in the south part of Syracuse about three-quarters of ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Identifying a bird ...