Winter Wren
Learn to identify the Winter Wren by ear. Master the "tweedlee-tweedlee-tweedlee-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti" phrase and tell it apart from similar species.
What the Winter Wren sounds like
The Winter Wren is North America’s smallest wren, a compact, round-bodied songbird with a stubby tail that is almost always cocked upward. Draped in rich chocolate-brown plumage heavily barred on the flanks, wings, and tail, it skitters mouse-like through dense, dark undergrowth. Though often unseen, its explosive, cascading song rings through moist coniferous forests.
“tweedlee-tweedlee-tweedlee-ti-ti-ti-ti-ti”
How to tell it apart
Lessons featuring the Winter Wren
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Where you'll hear it
Favors mature, mossy conifer and mixed forests with dense understory and downed logs; in winter also found in brushy ravines, stream edges, and tangled thickets.
Breeding: late April–August; southward migration September–October; wintering November–March; northward migration March–April.