More than 60% of all grassland habitats in North America have been lost, according to the 2019 North American Grassland and Birds Report by the National Audubon Society. Much of it is due to ...

It looks far too tiny to produce such a song, a liquid glissando that rings through the woods. The winter wren is a little brown bird with a very big song. It’s a demitasse of a bird, weighing less ...

The musician wren is aptly-named, because these birds use the same intervals in their songs that are heard as consonant in many human cultures. This is a what composer and musicologist and a biologist ...

Two concrete wrens, pictured in 1966, sat outside the WREN building on the northeastern corner of 8th and Vermont Street. Fifty-eight years ago, in the early hours of a freezing December night, a ...

The winter wren is a misnamed bird, at least in our neck of the woods. Here, this bird is a spring wren phenomenon. The Red River Valley is pretty well established as a northward migration route for ...

Recently, I received a telephone call from Marilyn Otten reporting that she had seen a Carolina wren, a new species for her yard on Harding Place in the south part of Syracuse about three-quarters of ...

In 1953, famed naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, who originated the field guide series bearing his name, took his British colleague, James Fisher, on a 30,000-mile tour of North America. They recounted ...

In the town of Dingle in the south-west of Ireland, locals often say that there are two seasons in the year: six months before the Wren and six months after the Wren (pronounced “wran”). It is not ...

For those who aren’t from the Kingdom, the concept of Wren Day may go right over your head. Of course, St Stephen’s Day is ...

Last year a number of (Dutch) newspapers published a news item with a title like 'Brazilian bird sings a song of Mozart-level quality'. Several friends send me links via the social media (Thanks! And ...