Medium-sized brown wren with a long tail that is often held up. The bill is long and slightly curved. Note white eyebrow and dark barring on the tail.
Boisterous and curious medium-sized wren with a bold white eyebrow stripe. Plumage varies regionally from rusty-brown in humid regions to gray in drier regions in the U.S.
Holds tail up over the back, often flicking it from side to side or fanning it as they skulk through tangles of branches and leaves searching for insects.
Plumage color varies regionally from rusty in more humid regions to gray in desert regions. Birds from San Francisco Bay south to Monterey, California, have less rusty coloring than birds farther north.
Males and females build a cup-shaped nest with grasses, rootlets, and leaves inside a hole in a tree or on a protected ledge.
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Bewick’s Wrens are medium-sized wrens with a slender body and a strikingly long tail often held upright. They have slender, long bills that are slightly downcurved.
Smaller than a House Sparrow; slightly larger than a House Wren
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