Even though house wrens don't stop at feeders, they are still a common backyard bird because they're cavity nesters. They use natural cavities but they also like manmade nest boxes. Create a brush ...

Bird nests can vary from crude and simple to intricate and complex. Predators, weather, habitat and the availability of ...

House wrens are little dynamos ... and can become fierce pillagers of other birds' nests. This is where they run afoul of some humans. A wren will enter a nest box already in use by another ...

Birdhouse Factors to Consider There are few bird-watching experiences more rewarding than setting up a birdhouse and having ...

just as house wrens protect the resources of their nesting territory by destroying other birds’ nests. This is the way of the natural world. Working to protect it means learning to accept its ...

a male house wren appeared in the yard around April 20, loudly announcing himself via his rollicking, trilled song. He wasted no time investigating potential nest sites, and my new bird house was ...

At Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County, most of this year's resident house wrens nest in natural tree cavities. These birds also like to use small nesting boxes – with a base of ...

House wrens construct their nests from sticks ... Or are they merely luring defenseless birds to nest in dangerous places? I don’t know the answer to this question, and I may never know it.

The location, shape and construction of a nest is as good a way to identify a species as is feather colour or song is to ...

and they grab the best cavities before migrating cavity nesters like house wrens arrive. Mice or other small mammals occupying nest boxes in winter also means birds can’t use the nest boxes for ...

The bird’s desire to get this nest building done is one thing ... This year, however, the wren colony was late in arriving and a house sparrow checked out the gourd, saw that it liked it ...