
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.
Northern House Wren nest in an aspen
Title: Northern House Wren nest in an aspen
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 7/11/2016
Northern House Wren at the edge of a forest
Title: Northern House Wren at the edge of a forest
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/2/2016
Northern House Wren at Bear River
Title: Northern House Wren at Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/2/2015
Northern House Wren at its nesting cavity
Title: Northern House Wren at its nesting cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/13/2015
Northern House Wren checking out the Williamson’s Sapsuckers
Title: Northern House Wren checking out the Williamson’s Sapsuckers
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 6/30/2014
Northern House Wren on an aspen stump
Title: Northern House Wren on an aspen stump
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Northern House Wren at the cavity with nesting material
Title: Northern House Wren at the cavity with nesting material
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Northern House Wren with its head poking out of the nesting cavity
Title: Northern House Wren with its head poking out of the nesting cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Northern House Wren taking a break from singing and nest building
Title: Northern House Wren taking a break from singing and nest building
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Northern House Wren peeking out of its nest
Title: Northern House Wren peeking out of its nest
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/30/2014
Aspen nesting cavity tree
Title: Aspen nesting cavity tree
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/29/2014
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Northern House Wren at a nesting cavity
Title: Northern House Wren at a nesting cavity
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/29/2014
Northern House Wren bringing in nesting material
Title: Northern House Wren bringing in nesting material
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/29/2014
Northern House Wren with a green background
Title: Northern House Wren with a green background
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/29/2014
Northern House Wren portrait
Title: Northern House Wren portrait
Location: Targhee National Forest, Clark County, Idaho
Date: 5/29/2014