Winter wren
Troglodytes troglodytes
Identification Tips:
- Length: 3.25 inches
- Short, thin bill
- Indistinct supercilium
- Reddish-brown upperparts (more reddish in eastern United States birds)
- Buffy breast with dark barring on belly and undertail coverts
- Wings and tail barred with black
- Very short tail frequently held upright
- Pink legs
- Sexes similar
- Frequently found very near the ground in brush piles, root tangles and
along stream banks
Similar species:
Other wrens with indistinct superciliums are House, Sedge and Rock
Wrens. Winter Wren is more reddish-brown above, darker below and has a
shorter tail. Sedge Wren is streaked with white on the crown and back. Rock
Wren is larger with a contrast between the gray back and brown rump and has
buffy tips to the tail.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.