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
A long, tumbling rush of dozens of notes—often around a hundred—packed into several sparkling seconds.
How to tell it apart
Lessons featuring the Winter Wren
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Where you'll hear it
Breeds across boreal Canada, the northern Great Lakes, and the Appalachians. Winters from the northern U.S. south to the Gulf Coast and Mexico.
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.
How to recognize it by sight
The Winter Wren is one of North America's tiniest wrens, a round-bodied brown bird with a stubby, often cocked tail.