[Length 4 in. Wingspan 5.5 in.]

This Winter Wren was photographed at the SPI Convention Center gardens, South Padre Island, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: November 8, 2010)

[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, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: February 2001)