A large, noisy, and familiar wren across Eastern and Southeastern North America. Adult is warm brown overall, with clean buffy underparts, white undertail coverts with black barring, rich reddish upperparts, fine black barring on wings and tail, white throat, clean white supercilium, and relatively long, slightly decurved bill. Sexes are similar. Like other wrens, tail is often held cocked upright, especially when active. Compare Bewick's Wren of Western North America.

Length: 14 (cm) Wingspan: 19 (cm)

Voice:

Song is loud, rich, varied; often in repeated three-syllable phrases. Calls are similarly loud, whistled, chattering.

Habitat:

Suburbs, parks, gardens, vine tangles, forest understory, woodland edges.

Behavior:

Common, often in backyards. Nest of twigs, lined with finer materials, placed inside cavity. Sometimes nests in odd places: mailboxes, tailpipes, eaves, tin cans. Regularly uses birdhouses.

Feeding:

Gleans foliage for insects, small animals, and occasional seeds or leaves. Forages on the ground or low levels of canopy. Sometimes visits bird feeders.