Rock Wren Images, Facts and Information:
Salpinctes obsoletus
- Rock Wrens are medium sized wrens with speckled grayish upperparts, white throats and breasts with fine gray streaks and buffy flanks and bellies, white over black eye brows, and brown rumps. Their tails are have buff and dark bars.
- Rock Wrens are partial migrants. Some are migratory and some move to lower elevations during the coldest months of the year. Rock Wrens are found in arid and semiarid areas with exposed rock and in some alpine habitats.
- Rock Wrens eat insects and spiders are they get the moisture they require from their prey.
- Rock Wrens lay 4 to 10 eggs which hatch in 12 to 18 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
- The life span of Rock Wrens is unknown.
- A group of wrens can be called a “flight”, “chime”, “herd” or flock of wrens.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Rock Wren photos.
Rock Wren on a rock at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Rock Wren on a rock at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Blinking Rock Wren at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Blinking Rock Wren at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Migrating Rock Wren
Title: Migrating Rock Wren
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Serious looking Rock Wren
Title: Serious looking Rock Wren
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Rock Wren on the last day of summer
Title: Rock Wren on the last day of summer
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Rock Wren staring at me
Title: Rock Wren staring at me
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Rock Wren perched on a boulder
Title: Rock Wren perched on a boulder
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Rock Wren on a large boulder
Title: Rock Wren on a large boulder
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Rock Wren at Farmington Bay
Title: Rock Wren at Farmington Bay
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/21/2022
Adult Rock Wren and a clear blue sky
Title: Adult Rock Wren and a clear blue sky
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2022
Adult Rock Wren staring at me
Title: Adult Rock Wren staring at me
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/10/2022
Rock Wren on a winter day
Title: Rock Wren on a winter day
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/6/2022
Winter Rock Wren perched on a lichen covered rock
Title: Winter Rock Wren perched on a lichen covered rock
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/6/2022
Adult Rock Wren singing in early morning light
Title: Adult Rock Wren singing in early morning light
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/27/2021
Rock Wren singing on a gnarly old fence post
Title: Rock Wren singing on a gnarly old fence post
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/26/2021
Adult Rock Wren perched on an old fence post
Title: Adult Rock Wren perched on an old fence post
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/26/2021
Rock Wren adult in early morning light
Title: Rock Wren adult in early morning light
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/26/2021
Rock Wren singing on a juniper
Title: Rock Wren singing on a juniper
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021
Adult Rock Wren on a boulder
Title: Adult Rock Wren on a boulder
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021
Rock Wren singing at the base of a juniper
Title: Rock Wren singing at the base of a juniper
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021