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The Carolina Wren is our most common wren. It grows more than 5 inches long and is brown, with a light yellowish-beige belly. It has a large white stripe over each eye, and a whitish throat. Like most wrens, it often holds its tail up when perched.
Carolina Wrens live in thickets, forests, marshes, parks, streamsides, and gardens. They like brushy areas with lots of shrubs and vines. These birds live here year-round.
In the Spring, Carolina Wrens build a nest out of sticks, grass, weeds, leaves, moss, pine needles, rootlets, bark strips, hair, feathers, string, and other bits of trash. Sometimes they use snakeskin. Nests are dome-shaped with an entrance on the side.
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Carolina Wrens are not picky about where they build, even though it’s usually in a shrub or vine. Other nesting places include tree stumps, old woodpecker holes, brush piles, and evergreen branches. Around people, wrens have used firewood stacks, boxes, mailboxes, tin cans, old shoes, window sills, and hanging plants to nest.
These birds are also known to make several nests in the same area; this may confuse predators trying to find out where the eggs are.
Carolina Wrens pair for life. Females lay four or five pinkish-white eggs, which hatch in about two weeks. Young wrens leave their nest in another two weeks.
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