Northern House Wren Images, Facts and Information:
Used to be: House Wren, changed in July 2024
Troglodytes aedon
- Northern House Wrens are small, brown birds with long curved bills, short wings and dark barring on their wings and back. Their tail is usually held in an upright or slightly drooped position.
- Northern House Wrens have one of the largest breeding ranges of any songbird. They are found from the southern most tip of South America, Central America and North American into Canada.
- Northern House Wrens are found in a variety of habitats that feature shrubs, trees, brush combined with open areas for foraging including southern swamps, deciduous forests, coniferous, aspen and alpine forests up to 10,000 feet in elevation. Most House Wrens migrate.
- Northern House Wrens eat beetles, spiders, flies, caterpillars, leafhoppers, springtails earwigs and other insects.
- Northern House Wrens are cavity nesters that lay 5 to 9 eggs which hatch in 13 to 15 days, the female incubates.
- A group of wrens can be called a “flight”, “chime”, “herd” or flock of wrens.
- Northern House Wrens can live up to 7 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Northern House Wren photos.
Low light House Wren
Title: Low light House Wren
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/30/2022
House Wren with insect prey for its nestlings
Title: House Wren with insect prey for its nestlings
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/26/2022
House Wren with insect prey for its young
Title: House Wren with insect prey for its young
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/26/2022
Adult House Wren perched on a rusty pipe
Title: Adult House Wren perched on a rusty pipe
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2021
House Wren with a large feather
Title: House Wren with a large feather
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2021
Adult House Wren with a feather for the nest
Title: Adult House Wren with a feather for the nest
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2021
Nesting House Wren with a large feather
Title: Nesting House Wren with a large feather
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2021
Adult House Wren bringing a feather to the nest
Title: Adult House Wren bringing a feather to the nest
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/23/2021
Adult House Wren at the nest entrance
Title: Adult House Wren at the nest entrance
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
Adult House Wren on a rusty metal pipe
Title: Adult House Wren on a rusty metal pipe
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
Adult House Wren looking up at the sky
Title: Adult House Wren looking up at the sky
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
House Wren singing from a serviceberry perch
Title: House Wren singing from a serviceberry perch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
House Wren on a sagebrush stump
Title: House Wren on a sagebrush stump
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
House Wren nesting in a rusty pipe
Title: House Wren nesting in a rusty pipe
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
House Wren on a rusty pipe with prey
Title: House Wren on a rusty pipe with prey
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
House Wren with prey in a serviceberry shrub
Title: House Wren with prey in a serviceberry shrub
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2021
Adult House Wren in a mountain forest
Title: Adult House Wren in a mountain forest
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/27/2021
Molting House Wren perched in a fork of branches
Title: Molting House Wren perched in a fork of branches
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/12/2020
Molting House Wren in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Molting House Wren in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/12/2020
Adult House Wren singing in a forest
Title: Adult House Wren singing in a forest
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 4/29/2020