While many birds curtail, so to speak, their nesting efforts during the summer, the house wren does not. They just keep going. Let's take a closer look at this clamorous, nonstop nester.

P eople often describe the house wren as plain because the bird has simple brown colors. But don't disregard these backyard guests. House wrens measure 4 3/4 inches long with a wingspan of 6 ...

This week’s featured creature is a rather dull looking little brown bird that passes through the Ada area during spring and fall migration. The house wren | | normantranscript.com Skip to main ...

Learn more about the house wren, ... The cahooni subspecies, allied with Mexican brunneicollis (“brown-throated wren”), in mountains of southeastern Arizona, ...

Many familiar birds produce just one brood of young per year — tree swallows, purple martins, Baltimore orioles, ducks and geese, and red-winged blackbirds among them. Eastern bluebirds ...

In late April, the gray-brown House Wrens arrive from the Gulf Coast and Mexico where they overwintered. Plain they are, with no eyebrow, only pale speckles on tail and wing.

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 ...

Wrens are diminutive brown birds identifiable at a glance by their prominently cocked tails, ... House wrens like open-understory woodlands, while Pacific wrens like moist forests.

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.

It is often difficult to distinguish between Mr. John Wren and Miss Jane Wren because both are small brown or buff-colored birds with tan beaks, but one can be sure the birds know their pecking order.

Both bluebirds and house wrens can have two, occasionally three, broods each summer, so the fighting may continue. Bluebird and wren nests are easy to tell apart. Bluebirds use pine needles and grass.