[Length 5 in. Wingspan 6 in.]

This Marsh Wren was photographed on one of the islands of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in Virginia. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1990)

[Length 5 in. Wingspan 6 in.]

This Marsh Wren was photographed at McFaddin NWR, TX. Photo taken with a Nikkor 70-200mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=375mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: May 8, 2006)

[Length 6 in. Wingspan 9 in.]

This Rock Wren was photographed near Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1992)

[Length 4.5 in. Wingspan 5.5 in.]

This Sedge Wren was photographed in the marshes at Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 1991)

[Length 4 in. Wingspan 5.5 in.]

Winter Wrens are small, energetic, brown birds with barred flanks, a noticeable supercilium (eye stripe), and a very short, barred tail which they often cock upward. They breed on Bering Sea Islands, along the entire Aleutian Island chain, across southern Alaska, southern Canada, and into the northwestern and northeastern US states. They also breed across much of Europe and Asia, where they are known simply as "Wrens", since they are the only species of Wren which occurs in the Old World. In winter in the east they move south to the eastern US states, and in the west to lower elevations and southward toward the coasts. They are year-round residents throughout most of their western coastal breeding range. This one was photographed in winter in the Texas Hill Country. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: February 2001)

[Length 4 in. Wingspan 5.5 in.]

This Eurasian Winter Wren was photographed at Loch an Eilein, Inverdruie, Scotland, Great Britain. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S f4 lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: June 18, 2004)

[Length 4 in. Wingspan 5.5 in.]

This fledgling Eurasian Winter Wren (having a "bad hair" day!) was photographed at Loch an Eilein, Inverdruie, Scotland, Great Britain. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S f4 lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: June 18, 2004)

[Length 4 in. Wingspan 5.5 in.]

This fledgling Eurasian Winter Wren was photographed at Loch an Eilein, Inverdruie, Scotland, Great Britain. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF-S f4 lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: June 18, 2004)