| Description: About 5 inches long, it has
a plump little body, gray brown with tiny bars on the wings and tall. underreports
are grayish white. The female lays 5 - 6 pink or white eggs with brown spots.
They hatch in 12 - 15 days and fledgelings leave the nest in 16 or 17 days.
Habitat: House wrens are found in
wooded and rural areas, as well as suburbs, wooded canyons and mountain forests.
Their nests are made of twigs, grass and feathers placed in any cavity, natural
or man made, such as a birdhouse.
Foods: They eat insects and spiders.
Facts: Wrens are small, brown birds
that usually carry their tails upright. The well known House Wren is a garden
bird that lacks distinct head markings. The tiny northern Winter Wren has
a dark belly and shorter tail. Carolina Wren of the Southeast has a large
white eye stripe and a ruddy back. Western wrens include Bewick's Wren with
a white eye stripe and a lone tail with narrow white border, Canyon Wren
with white breast and contrasting dark belly, Rock Wren with faint breast
steaks and buff frigid tail, and the hinge cactus wren of the deserts.
Did you know?: Male house wrens lay
nest foundations of sticks in several holes. The female chooses one and lines
it with soft materials before she lays her eggs.
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