Look for a bird with a brown body and narrow dark bars or stripes on its wings and tail. Learn how to identify and attract a Carolina wren and a Bewick's wren. An unstoppable waterfall of notes ...

A wren's song is very loud ... mechanical fashion. If you spot a bird you can't instantly identify, write down a description. You won't be able to remember complicated plumage details ...

Migration: most birds in North America migratory. Major spring movement follows that of the winter wren; major fall movement ... Not a hardy species; stragglers north of core wintering range ...

Vocal and plumage variation in the Bewick’s wren is extensive ... buzzier. Songs of birds in the interior subspecies-group (ero­moph­ilus group) are simpler than those from the far West ...