Many of the UK’s bird species are in serious decline, largely due to habitat destruction and the collapse of food chains ...

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.

The wren, the wren, the King of all birds, St. Stephen's Day was caught in the furze. So up with the kettle and down with the pan, and give us a penny to bury the wren.

Rock Wren is an apropos name for a bird that lives in sparsely vegetated, arid and rocky canyons. These birds breed on talus slopes, scrublands and dry washes, from desert to alpine in western ...