Winter Wren

About this cute Winter Wren

The Winter Wren, in Europe simply known as the Wren, is a very small bird and is the only one of nearly sixty species in the Wren family which occurs in the Old World.

It can be found in Europe, a belt of Asia from northern Iran and Afghanistan across to Japan, and North America. It is only migratory in the northern parts of its range.

The scientific name, Troglodytes troglodytes, is taken from the Greek word 'troglodytes', meaning 'cave-dweller', and refers to its habit of disappearing into cavities or crevices whilst hunting arthropods or to roost. Sometimes it is placed in a monotypic genus Nannus to reflect its distinctness from the American Troglodytes.