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That Nest in BirdhousesWinter Wren
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Troglodytidae
Genus: Troglodytes
Species: hiemalis
La. passer sparrow, small bird
La. forma form, kind, species
Gr. trogle hole or hollow
Gr. dutes burrower
La. -idae appearance, resemblance
Gr. troglodutes cave dweller
La. hiemalis winter
About four inches long. Reddish brown, upper parts, with gray brown underside, barred sides and tail. Similar to the house wren.
Horizontal streak over the eye lacking the distinct contrast of the Carolina, Bewick’s and marsh Wrens. Short, often stuck up tail, slightly downward curved beak.
Winter Wrens inhabit coniferous forests, often deep in the woods, sometimes in the thickets of fields or wetland edges throughout most of British Columbia, south through Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California, eastward across Canada, throughout the Great Lakes Region, lower Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and south through Appalachia.
The song of the winter wren is a rapid series of high-pitched bubbly chirping, here transcribed to sheet music by F. Schuyler Mathews
You may occasionally glimpse a winter wren out of the corner of your eye darting through underbrush, gone before you can focus, usually close to the ground foraging for insects, spiders and seeds.
Feed winter wrens mealworms, suet and suet mixes, peanut butter, bread crumbs and apple bits.
Attract wrens by planting various berry producing shrubbery which they will sometimes sample.
Leave piles of fallen shrubs, plants and leaves left full, not cut into neat piles on the ground which will provide cover for them and the insects they eat.
Winter wrens build nests of leaves, small twigs, feathers and moss in natural or abandoned tree cavities, broken tree stumps, roots of fallen timber, brush heaps, open buildings or bird houses.
Females lay four to seven eggs, more or less, white speckled eggs which hatch after about two weeks incubation and young leave the nest in about another three weeks. Winter wrens normally raise two broods each season.
The Winter Wren Birdhouse (same as for Bewick’s Wrens and House Wrens) has a 4″ by 4″ floor, 8″ inside floor to ceiling, 1 1/4″ diameter entrance hole located 6″ above the floor and ventilation openings.
Assemble with screws fit to pre-drilled pilot holes and secure hinged roof with shutter hooks.
Mount or hang from tree limbs at chest level, higher only if necessary in secluded locations with partial sun and shade near plenty of trees and other foliage.
Locate deeper in the forest or grove as they are less inclined than the House Wren to live near humans.
Because male wrens tend to build several nests for the female to choose from, hanging several nest boxes may make an area more attractive.
Chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, downy woodpeckers and other wrens may use this box.
Wren Nest Box
Wren Nest Box Plans
Winter Wren
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Troglodytidae
Genus: Troglodytes
Species: hiemalis
La. passer sparrow, small bird
La. forma form, kind, species
Gr. trogle hole or hollow
Gr. dutes burrower
La. -idae appearance, resemblance
Gr. troglodutes cave dweller
La. hiemalis winter
About four inches long. Reddish brown, upper parts, with gray brown underside, barred sides and tail. Similar to the house wren.
Horizontal streak over the eye lacking the distinct contrast of the Carolina, Bewick’s and marsh Wrens. Short, often stuck up tail, slightly downward curved beak.
Winter Wrens inhabit coniferous forests, often deep in the woods, sometimes in the thickets of fields or wetland edges throughout most of British Columbia, south through Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California, eastward across Canada, throughout the Great Lakes Region, lower Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and south through Appalachia.
The song of the winter wren is a rapid series of high-pitched bubbly chirping, here transcribed to sheet music by F. Schuyler Mathews
You may occasionally glimpse a winter wren out of the corner of your eye darting through underbrush, gone before you can focus, usually close to the ground foraging for insects, spiders and seeds.
Feed winter wrens mealworms, suet and suet mixes, peanut butter, bread crumbs and apple bits.
Attract wrens by planting various berry producing shrubbery which they will sometimes sample.
Leave piles of fallen shrubs, plants and leaves left full, not cut into neat piles on the ground which will provide cover for them and the insects they eat.
Winter wrens build nests of leaves, small twigs, feathers and moss in natural or abandoned tree cavities, broken tree stumps, roots of fallen timber, brush heaps, open buildings or bird houses.
Females lay four to seven eggs, more or less, white speckled eggs which hatch after about two weeks incubation and young leave the nest in about another three weeks. Winter wrens normally raise two broods each season.
The Winter Wren Birdhouse (same as for Bewick’s Wrens and House Wrens) has a 4″ by 4″ floor, 8″ inside floor to ceiling, 1 1/4″ diameter entrance hole located 6″ above the floor and ventilation openings.
Assemble with screws fit to pre-drilled pilot holes and secure hinged roof with shutter hooks.
Mount or hang from tree limbs at chest level, higher only if necessary in secluded locations with partial sun and shade near plenty of trees and other foliage.
Locate deeper in the forest or grove as they are less inclined than the House Wren to live near humans.
Because male wrens tend to build several nests for the female to choose from, hanging several nest boxes may make an area more attractive.
Chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, downy woodpeckers and other wrens may use this box.
Wren Nest Box
Wren Nest Box Plans
Winter Wren
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Order: Passeriformes
Family: Troglodytidae
Genus: Troglodytes
Species: hiemalis
La. passer sparrow, small bird
La. forma form, kind, species
Gr. trogle hole or hollow
Gr. dutes burrower
La. -idae appearance, resemblance
Gr. troglodutes cave dweller
La. hiemalis winter
About four inches long. Reddish brown, upper parts, with gray brown underside, barred sides and tail.
Similar to the house wren. Horizontal streak over the eye lacking the distinct contrast of the Carolina, Bewick’s and marsh Wrens. Short, often stuck up tail, slightly downward curved beak.
Winter Wrens inhabit coniferous forests, often deep in the woods, sometimes in the thickets of fields or wetland edges throughout most of British Columbia, south through Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California, eastward across Canada, throughout the Great Lakes Region, lower Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and south through Appalachia.
The song of the winter wren is a rapid series of high-pitched bubbly chirping, here transcribed to sheet music by F. Schuyler Mathews
You may occasionally glimpse a winter wren out of the corner of your eye darting through underbrush, gone before you can focus, usually close to the ground foraging for insects, spiders and seeds.
Feed winter wrens mealworms, suet and suet mixes, peanut butter, bread crumbs and apple bits.
Attract wrens by planting various berry producing shrubbery which they will sometimes sample.
Leave piles of fallen shrubs, plants and leaves left full, not cut into neat piles on the ground which will provide cover for them and the insects they eat.
Winter wrens build nests of leaves, small twigs, feathers and moss in natural or abandoned tree cavities, broken tree stumps, roots of fallen timber, brush heaps, open buildings or bird houses.
Females lay four to seven eggs, more or less, white speckled eggs which hatch after about two weeks incubation and young leave the nest in about another three weeks. Winter wrens normally raise two broods each season.
The Winter Wren Birdhouse (same as for Bewick’s Wrens and House Wrens) has a 4″ by 4″ floor, 8″ inside floor to ceiling, 1 1/4″ diameter entrance hole located 6″ above the floor and ventilation openings.
Wren Nest Box
Assemble with screws fit to pre-drilled pilot holes and secure hinged roof with shutter hooks.
Mount or hang from tree limbs at chest level, higher only if necessary in secluded locations with partial sun and shade near plenty of trees and other foliage.
Wren Nest Box Plans
Locate deeper in the forest or grove as they are less inclined than the House Wren to live near humans.
Remove the nests after the brood rearing seasons are over.
Chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, downy woodpeckers and other wrens may use this box.
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