Naturalists and volunteers at Erie Bluffs State Park check bird houses each week this time of year to chart nesting activity.

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

The house wren builds a nest out of twigs and sticks, into which the female places soft material for her eggs.” Michalski is no fan of invasive species like house sparrows and starlings, but she ...

Around our yard can be heard the territorial songs of cardinal, house wren, robin, rose-breasted grosbeak and song sparrow, all of which create a sense that all is well with the world, another nesting ...

Those sturdy twigs can also block other birds and predators from getting to the eggs and hatchlings. The Northern house wren is considered a rather plain and drab-looking brown bird with a thin bill.

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Vanya Rohwer at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates in Ithaca, New York, and his colleagues, surveyed the literature and found reports of 78 bird species, such as the house wren ...

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The house wren nest box is empty, but my heart is full. The annual wren nesting at Mt. Hoo has been a success. For seven years now a tiny camera has allowed my wife and I to watch this miracle ...

While the male cicada makes a noise as it whizzes from tree to tree, the male wren does the same thing by building nests for the female of the species. Wrens are those small chirpy birds about 4 ...

The third box, the one high in the rose arbor, held a mossy chickadee nest, carefully built on top of last year’s house wren nest. When I opened the box, the brooding female shot out the door.