General

Carolina Wren: Medium-sized wren with rufous upperparts and buff underparts. Eyebrows are vivid white. Throat is white and bill is long and decurved. Wings and tail are dark barred with white flecks. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Carolina Wren: Breeds from British Columbia, Montana, and western South Dakota southward.

Breeding and Nesting

Carolina Wren: Four to eight white or light pink eggs, marked with brown, are laid in a shallow cup of sticks, leaves, mosses, and finer materials built in a crevice among rocks or, occasionally, on a building. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Carolina Wren: Eats mainly spiders and insects; forages on or near the ground.

Readily Eats

Apple Slices, Peanut Butter

Vocalization

Carolina Wren: Sings a descending rain of notes, "peup, peup, peup tew tew tew tew tew, mew." Call is an abrasive nasal "jeet."

Similar Species

Carolina Wren: Bewick's Wren has white underparts, long rounded tail tipped with white, and different song.