And we’re only into June. The Jenny wren, more properly called the house wren, is one of the noisiest birds of the dooryard. From morning to night its bubbly song is heard; to the annoyance of ...

One bird guide describes the phonetics as tsi-tsi ... While obviously related, few people mistake the Carolina for the Jenny wren. The Jenny is relatively small and stocky with a gray-brown ...

The bird we know as simply the wren is more correctly known as ... which may explain why wrens tend to be thought of as female, hence Jenny Wren. Communist folklore specialist AL (Bert) Lloyd took a ...

Peter Rabbit's eyes twinkled when Jenny Wren said that she must ... is to build the nestbox for a very small bird, like a chickadee or a house wren. If you make the opening small enough, the ...

hence Jenny Wren. Some cultures, however, prefer a masculine character to support the regal notion and, in Germany, the bird is known as Zaun-könig or hedge king. The loud song from such a small ...

Although it is impossible for mere humans to distinguish the sexes of the wren – they are tiny brown birds with short cocked tails and loud but beautiful voices – it is generally the male that ...

The birds typify the differences between ... and you still can't imagine the blueness of a dinkum Australian wren. Britain's poor little Jenny looks positively dour in comparison.

- any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects ...