Sedge Wren is buffier on the breast and is streaked with white on the crown and back. Winter Wren is more reddish-brown above, darker below and has a shorter tail. Other wrens with indistinct supercilium (line above eye)s are Winter, Sedge and Rock Wrens. Pale gray underparts with dark barring on belly and undertail coverts.Eye ring Gray-brown upperparts (browner in eastern United States birds).Short, thin bill Indistinct supercilium (line above eye).tobagensis is larger and has much paler underparts than the mainland forms. There are regional variations in the appearance of this bird. They have an eye ring, a faint line over the eye, a short thin bill and pink legs. They have brown or grey-brown upperparts with pale grey underparts there are black bars on the flanks, wings and tail. House Wrens are known to destroy the eggs of other birds nesting near their territory.Īdults are 11.5 cm long and weigh 12 g. The female incubates the clutch of three to six red-blotched cream-white eggs for 14-15 days, and the naked young take another 16-19 days to fledge. This bird builds its large cup nest in various sorts of cavities, either natural or man-made, often using bird houses where they are available, and sometimes choosing unusual sites such as old shoes. The House Wren may have been displaced somewhat in some northern parts of its range by the introduction of the House Sparrow but is still common and widespread throughout most of the two continents. North American birds migrate to the southern United States and Mexico. The tropical forms from southern Mexico southwards are sometimes considered a separate species, the Southern House Wren, Troglodytes musculus. Their breeding habitat is semi-open areas from Canada to southernmost South America. The House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) is a small songbird of Wren family.
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