WINTER WREN

The winter wren is one of the smaller birds; it has a particularly loud song.is a North American bird and a member of the leading new world wren family Troglodytidae.

DISTRIBUTION

Widespread everywhere North America, northern Asia, North Africa, and Europe.

CONSERVATION

The winter wren is standard in North America where lots of forest habitat lives in its breeding and wintering regions.

BREEDING

A male wren is extraordinarily territorial and claims his territory by singing loudly from a perch among the tree branches. He is most vocal in March, when the mating season begins. About this time the male wren builds some nests in his area. A female picks one and places it in preparing while laying her eggs. The nests are hidden in a bush, a hole in a wall, or a crack in a tree trunk. While more apparent habitats, a bunch of grass or other vegetation used, though, as the human population increases, more wrens exist in sheds and outbuildings in urban areas. The female deposits and incubates her eggs under April. When the young hatch, the male helps to feed them. A male wren often has more than one mate, especially if he has a vast territory. Each female that he mates with chooses a different nest within his area.

HABITS

Winter wrens are found in high numbers in a variety of habitats, including woodland, open land, rocky areas, and molasses. Same many types of woodland bird, the wren has adapted to surviving in populated areas where there is enough vegetation to give protection. Still, they are not as prevalent in urban spaces as they are in the country. Wintertime wrens have a problem surviving through freezing weather. Lengthy periods of subzero temperatures generate their little bodies to lose heat quickly, and the snowcovered ground makes it difficult for them to find food. One step in which wrens attempt to survive in wintertime is by common roosting. Only before dusk wrens group by attracting one different with their loud songs. One by one they enter the roost sit under the roof of a building or in an abandoned bird nest. They are more frequent in areas near streams.

FOOD &: FEEDING

Winter wrens feed mainly on insect larvae, small beetles, crane flies, mosquitoes, ants, aphids, and spiders. They also eat the nymphs (immature insects in the cocoon stage) from butterflies and moths. They hardly eat little slugs and snails as well as small fish and tadpoles. The small birds forage exhaustively for food by looking between all the vegetation they can find. They make quick darting movements when they search for food.

DID YOU KNOW?

-In North America, the Christmastime wren leaves south at the end of the summer.

- Unlike whole bird varieties, it is the male wren, rather than the female, that builds the retreat.

- Wrens have been said to ride on the backs of eagles and then fly off when the larger birds grew tired.

Habit: Roosts communally in cold weather.

Diet: Mainly insects and spiders.

Lifespan: 6 years.