The wren, meanwhile, continued his rounds, moving from nest box to nest box, laying claim to them all. A female wren, if one ...

Birds with “house” built into their names are, not surprisingly, common urban residents. Three such birds found in Minnesota include the house wren, house finch and house sparrow. Here’s a quick bio ...

Photos of federal officers descending on a Los Angeles park as residents and mayor watch Astronomers call for help identifying mystery object that may have just crashed into Saturn White House Rose ...

At times, this flitting between gourd and ground devolves into a determined struggle as the small male bird tries to place a branch bigger than itself into the gourd. This year, the wren tried for … ...

A house wren serves up a tasty insect to a nestling that's soon to become a fledgling. A family of wrens moved into a bird house in columnist John Kelly's backyard in spring. (John Kelly/The ...

The house wren is a small and dainty looking bird, but its behaviour is that of a feisty and competitive animal with a dark side. The female is known to be a cantankerous and demanding mate. Eager to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carolina wrens, unlike house wrens, live here year-round. So Carolinas have a wing up, so to speak, on house wrens: They get first choice on nesting quarters. In fact, they’re well along with ...

The small brown bird, a house wren, was continually singing from a tree near where I was sitting. Was it mad at me for invading its home? Was it calling for a mate? Why do birds sing, anyway? The ...

The house wren takes a different approach than other cavity-nesting birds when it comes to claiming bird houses, with the male arriving a week or two before the female.

A catbird was skulking around the forsythia in my backyard this morning, but she was stealthy enough to keep their nest a ...