House Wren

The House Wren, Troglodytes aedon, is a small songbird of the Wren family.

Adults have brown or grey-brown upperparts with pale grey underparts; there are black bars on the flanks, wings and tail. They have an eye ring, a faint line over the eye, a short thin bill and pink legs. There are regional variations in the appearance of this bird.

Their breeding habitat is semi-open areas from Canada to southern South America. This bird nests in various sorts of cavities, either natural or man-made, often using bird houses and sometimes choosing unusual sites such as old shoes. They are known to destroy the eggs of other birds nesting near their territory.

North American birds migrate to the southern United States and Mexico.

These birds forage actively in vegetation. They mainly eat insects, also spiders and snails.

This bird's rich bubbly song is commonly heard during the nesting season but not at all afterwards.

This bird may have been displaced somewhat by the introducion of the House Sparrow but is still common and widespread.