Northern House-Wren (Troglodytes aedon)

Photos by Barry Wallace

Northern House Wren

The Northern House Wren is a most welcome visitor to my backyard in the summer.   Its splendid song, is a cascade of burbling whistled notes and I just wish it was a year-around resident in my part of southern Ontario.   It is the plainest-looking of North American wrens yet endearing when it industriously sets about creating a home in a nest box (see bottom photo).   It amazingly can be found from central Canada south to Tierra del Fuego.   If you're just over 4" long, it sometimes helps to be pugnacious and this little birds has a tendency to take on all comers, around its nest.

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