Winter Wren - "...a tiny ball of energy"
The Winter Wren is found across southern Canada and the the eastern United States. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recently described the Winter Wren in the following fashion: "In a tangled understory of eastern forests, a tiny ball of energy lets loose with a rich cascade of bubbly notes". This songster is the Winter Wren, shaking as sings its astoundingly loud song. I sports a palette of browns and dark barring on the wings, tail, and belly. It usually holds its tiny tail straight up and bounces up and down, It is a rather weak flyer that hops and scampers among fallen logs in a mouse-like fashion, inspecting upturned roots and vegetation for insects.
In summer, Winter Wrens are often commonly found in evergreen forests near streams with lots of fallen logs and dense understories.
In winter they become much more widespread in southern Canada and the eastern U.S., and move from deep forest into more open or younger woods where they are easier to find. Personally, I have never found one, but then I have never looked for one. I may have seen one or heard one at some time in the past, but the Winter Wren does not have a place on my birding life-list.
More than 80 species of wren live in North and South America, but only one wren occurs in the rest of the world (the Eurasian Wren).
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