The call of the Carolina wren Of the early bird singers, perhaps the most conspicuous is the Carolina wren. The male who has laid claim to my yard is busy making himself known to all of late. For ...

Carolina wren’s winter song boosts spirit The Carolina wren, like this one in Decatur, sings year-round, even in the dead of winter when most other birds are silent. (Courtesy of Charles Seabrook) ...

The small brown bird, a house wren, was continually singing from a tree near where I was sitting. Was it mad at me for invading its home? Was it calling for a mate? Why do birds sing, anyway? The ...

The Winter Wren and its western counterpart the Pacific Wren are some of the smallest birds in North America, but they have the longest songs of any bird in the continent and perhaps the world ...

In the song folklore irony transformed the tiny wren into a magical gigantic powerful bird, a great fowl so hard to seize, so difficult to dismember but so suitable for sharing among the hungry poor.

Rivera-Cáceres studies bird song, and that day she was listening to the canebrake wren, a brown bird whose bland appearance (it was once named the “plain wren”) belies an unusual and ...

The House Wren is a familiar and lively neighborhood bird with a rich bubbling song, subtly patterned brown plumage, and a ...

Learn more about the house wren, a bird that is dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song.

Identifying birds by their songs adds zest to birding Some birds sing just for the pure joy of celebrating a beautiful morning. The wood thrush is one of Georgia's sweetest singing songbirds.