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{{Short description|Species of bird}}
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| image = Troglodytes aedon NPS.jpg
| image_caption = Northern house wren<br/>[[Bandelier National Monument]] ([[New Mexico]], US)
| image2 = Troglodytes aedon - House Wren - XC79974.ogg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn|title=''Troglodytes aedon'' |amends=2016 |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year=2017|page=e.T103886826A111242743|access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Troglodytes
| species = aedon
| authority = [[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1809
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The '''northern house wren''' ('''''Troglodytes aedon''''') is a very small [[passerine]] in the wren [[family (biology)|family]] [[Troglodytidae]]. It found in southern Canada, the USA and Mexico. It occurs in most suburban areas in its range. It formerly included many [[subspecies]] resident in South America and in the Caribbean that are now considered as separate species. The name ''troglodytes'' means "hole dweller", and is a reference to the bird's tendency to disappear into crevices when hunting insects or to seek shelter.

==Taxonomy==
The northern house wren was [[species description|formally described]] in 1809 by the French ornithologist [[Louis Pierre Vieillot]] under the current [[binomial name]] ''Troglodytes aedon''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1807 | title=Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale : contenant un grand nombre d'espèces décrites ou figurées pour la première fois | volume=2 | language=French | location=Paris | publisher=Chez Desray | pages=52–55, Plate 107 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47004903 }} Although the title page bears the year 1807, the volume was not publish until 1809. See: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | page=157 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 }}</ref> The specific epithet is from the [[Ancient Greek]] ''aēdōn'' meaning "nightingale".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=32 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n32/mode/1up }}</ref> The [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] was designated as New York City by [[Harry C. Oberholser|Harry Oberholser]] in 1934.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Oberholser | first=Harry C. | author-link=Harry C. Oberholser | year=1934 | title=A revision of the North American House Wrens | journal=Ohio Journal of Science | volume=34 | issue=2 | pages=86–96 [87] | url=https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/2678/V34N02_086.pdf?sequence=1 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1960 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=9 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology  | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=422 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481097 }}</ref> An earlier specific name, ''domestica'' in the combination ''Sylvia domestica'', was introduced in 1808 by the American ornithologist [[Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)|Alexander Wilson]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Wilson | first=Alexander | author-link=Alexander Wilson (ornithologist) | year=1808 | title=American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States: Illustrated with Plates Engraved and Colored from Original drawings taken from Nature | volume=1 | location=Philadelphia | publisher=Bradford and Inskeep | page=129 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46341739 }}</ref> This was rarely used and in 1998 to conserve the widely used name ''aedon'', the [[International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]] suppressed the specific name ''domestica'' for the purposes of the [[Priority (biology)|principle of priority]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Banks | first1=Richard C. | last2=Browning | first2=M. Ralph | date=1995 | title=Comments on the status of revived old names for some North American birds | journal=The Auk | volume=112 | issue=3 | pages=633-648 [638] | doi=10.1093/auk/112.3.633 | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{ cite journal | author=Commission of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature | date=1998 | title=Opinion 1893 (Case 2969) ''Bombycilla cedrorum'' Vieillot, (1808) and ''Troglodytes aedon'' Vieillot, (1809) (Aves, Passeriformes): specific names conserved | journal=Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature | volume=55 | issue=1 | pages=62-63 | url=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12441430 }}</ref>

Four [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sugarbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=8 October 2024 }}</ref>
* ''T. a. parkmanii'' [[John James Audubon|Audubon]], 1839 – southwest, central south Canada and west, central USA to north Mexico (north [[Baja California]])
* ''T. a. aedon'' [[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1809 – southeast Canada and east USA
* ''T. a. cahooni'' [[William Brewster (ornithologist)|Brewster]], 1888 – southeast Arizona (southwest USA) to central Mexico ([[Nayarit]] and [[Zacatecas]])
* ''T. a. brunneicollis'' [[Philip Sclater|Sclater, PL]], 1858 – central, south Mexico ([[Jalisco]] to [[Coahuila]], central [[Nuevo León]])

The following species were formerly considered as subspecies in the house wren complex. The species were split based on the deep [[genetic divergence|genomic divergence]] and differences in vocalizations and morphology.<ref name=ioc/><ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Klicka | first1=J. | last2=Epperly | first2=K. | last3=Smith | first3=B.T. | last4=Spellman | first4=G.M. | last5=Chaves | first5=J.A. | last6=Escalante | first6=P. | last7=Witt | first7=C.C. | last8=Canales-del-Castillo | first8=R. | last9=Zink | first9=R.M. | date=2023 | title=Lineage diversity in a widely distributed New World passerine bird, the House Wren | journal=Ornithology | volume=140 | issue=3 | pages=ukad018 | doi=10.1093/ornithology/ukad018 | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Chesser | first1=R.T. | last2=Billerman | first2=S.M. | last3=Burns | first3=K.J. | last4=Cicero | first4=C. | last5=Dunn | first5=J.L. | last6=Hernández-Baños | first6=B.E. | last7=Jiménez | first7=R.A. | last8=Johnson | first8=O. | last9=Kratter | first9=A.W. | last10=Mason | first10=N.A. | last11=Rasmussen | first11=P.C. | last12=Remsen | first12=J.V.J. | date=2024 | title=Sixty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds | journal=Ornithology | volume=141 | issue=3 | pages=ukae019 | doi=10.1093/ornithology/ukae019 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Southern house wren]], ''Troglodytes musculus'' (includes 21 subspecies)
* [[Cozumel wren]], ''Troglodytes beani''
* [[Kalinago wren]], ''Troglodytes martinicensis''
* [[St. Lucia wren]], ''Troglodytes mesoleucus''
* [[St. Vincent wren]], ''Troglodytes musicus''
* [[Grenada wren]], ''Troglodytes grenadensis''
* [[Cobb's wren]], ''Troglodytes cobbi''

==Description==
Adult northern house wrens are about {{convert|11|to|13|cm|in|abbr=on}} long, with a {{convert|15|cm|in|abbr=on}} wingspan and weigh about {{convert|10|to|12|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref>[http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Wren/lifehistory House Wren, Life History, Cornell Lab of Ornithology]. Allaboutbirds.org. Retrieved on 2013-03-18.</ref> Among standard measurements, the [[Wing chord (biology)|wing chord]] is {{convert|4.7|to|5.3|cm|in|abbr=on}}, the [[tail]] is {{convert|3.9|to|4.4|cm|in|abbr=on}}, the [[Culmen (bird)|culmen]] is {{convert|1.1|to|1.3|cm|in|abbr=on}} and the [[Tarsus (skeleton)|tarsus]] is {{convert|1.6|to|1.8|cm|in|abbr=on}}.<ref name=Brewer>Brewer,  David & Sean McMinn (2001). ''Wrens, Dippers, and Thrashers: A Guide to the Wrens, Dippers, and Thrashers of the World''. Yale University Press. {{ISBN|978-0300090598}}.</ref> The [[subspecies]] vary greatly, with upper parts ranging from dull greyish-brown to rich [[Rufous|rufescent]]-brown, and the underparts ranging from brown, over buff and pale grey, to pure white. All subspecies have blackish barring to the wings and tail, and some also to the flanks. All subspecies show a faint eye-ring and eyebrow and have a long, thin bill with a blackish upper mandible, and a black-tipped yellowish or pale grey lower mandible. The legs are pinkish or grey. The short tail is typically held cocked.<ref name = Peterson>Peterson, Roger Tory (1947). ''A Field Guide to the Birds: Eastern Land and Water Birds'', Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, p. 121.</ref>

This bird's rich bubbly song is commonly heard during the nesting season but rarely afterwards. There is marked geographical variation in the song, though somewhat more gradual than in the bird's outward appearance that can strikingly differ, e.g., on neighboring islands in the [[Caribbean]].<ref name =v&j2005/> Birds from the far north and south of the species' range nonetheless have songs that differ markedly.<ref name = "Brumfield"/>
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Troglodytes-aedon-001.ogg|Northern house wren song recorded in [[Rondeau Provincial Park]] (Ontario, Canada)
House wren in full song cropped.png|Northern house wren<br/>[[San Luis Obispo]] (California, USA)
Troglodytes aedon - House Wren - XC59832.ogg|Northern house wren recorded at Richardson Nature Center, Bloomington, Minnesota
20230823 house wren south meadows PND00321.jpg|Juvenile with missing tail feathers, ([[East Hartford, Connecticut]], USA)
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==Behavior and ecology==
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The northern house wren is thought to achieve the highest density in floodplain forests in the western great plains where it uses woodpecker holes as nesting sites. The birds [[bird migration|migrate]] to the southern United States and Mexico for winter. Most return to the breeding grounds in late April to May, and leave for winter quarters again around September to early October.<ref name=OOS/> These birds forage actively in vegetation. They mainly eat [[insect]]s such as butterfly larvae, beetles and bugs,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Troglodytes_aedon/ | title=Troglodytes aedon (House wren) | website=[[Animal Diversity Web]] }}</ref> also [[spider]]s and [[snail]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=House Wren {{!}} Audubon Field Guide |url=https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/house-wren |access-date=2024-04-20 |language=en}}</ref> Southern house wrens rarely attend [[mixed-species feeding flock]]s.<ref name=Machado/>

===Breeding===
[[File:Troglodytes aedon audubon.jpg|thumb|left|Audubon's illustration of nesting house wrens]]
The nesting habits do not seem to differ significantly between the northern and southern house wrens. They usually construct a large cup nest in various sorts of cavities, taking about a week to build. The nest is made from small dry sticks and is usually lined with a variety of different materials. These include: feather, hair, wool, spider cocoons, strips of bark, rootlets, moss, and trash. The male wren finds dry sticks, which he adds to the nest. Once he is done, the female inspects the nest; but if she does not approve of the construction, she will throw any unwanted sticks to the ground. After this process, the female lines the nest. Nest cavities are usually a few meters above ground at most,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v088n04/p0483-p0486.pdf|title=Nesting Losses and Nest Site Preferences in House Wrens|last=Jean-Claude Belles-Isles and Jaroslav Picman|date=1986|website=The University of New Mexico}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v067n03/p0229-p0234.pdf|title=Nest Construction by House Wrens|last=McCabe|first=Robert A.|date=1965|website=The University of New Mexico}}</ref> but occasionally on cliffs as high up as {{convert|15|m|ft|abbr=on}} and more at least in southern populations{{Verify source|date=February 2008}}<!-- may or may not the same in Northern HW -->; they may be natural or man-made, often using bird houses.

Northern house wrens are feisty and pugnacious animals considering their tiny size. They are known to occasionally destroy the [[Egg (biology)|egg]]s of other birds nesting in their territory by puncturing the eggshell. Females that sang more songs to conspecifics that were simulated by playback lost fewer eggs to [[Infanticide (zoology)|ovicide]] by other wrens. Female bird song in this species is, therefore, thought to have a function in competition and is not only displayed by males.<ref name=Krieg>{{cite journal|author1=Krieg, CA |author2=Getty, T |year=2016|title= Not just for males: females use song against male and female rivals in a temperate zone songbird|journal= Animal Behaviour|volume=113|pages=39–47|doi=10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.12.019|doi-access=free}}</ref> They are also known to fill up other birds' nests within its territory with sticks to make them unusable.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/red-in-beak-and-claw.html|title=Red in Beak and Claw|last=Renkl|first=Margaret|date=July 2016|website=The New York Times}}</ref>
[[File:20240607 house wren eviction pleasant valley.webm|thumb|right|House wren removing the contents of a [[tree swallow]] nest from a nest box (Tree swallow not shown).]]

[[File:House wren - food drops.ogv|thumb|right|Adult bringing food for young (note begging calls)]]
[[File:House wren in JBWR (50039).jpg|alt=House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) peering out from a nest box|thumb|House Wren peering out from a nesting box]]
Depending on the exact population, the northern house wrens' [[clutch (eggs)|clutch]] is usually between two and eight red-blotched cream-white eggs,<ref name=HBW/> weighing about {{convert|1.4|g|oz|abbr=on|2}} each and measuring c.{{convert|17|and|13.4|mm|in|abbr=on}} at the widest points. Only the female incubates these, for around 12–19 days,<ref name=HBW/> and she will every now and then leave the nest for various reasons. While she is on the nest, the male provisions her with food. The young, which like all [[passerine]]s hatch almost [[Altricial|naked and helpless]], take another 15–19 days or so to [[fledge]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://voice.gardenbird.co.uk/all-about-the-wren/|title=Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)|website=Garden Bird - Quality Bird Food Supplier|date=14 March 2017 }}</ref><!-- 16 and 15 figures are from Auer ref; was: "14-16" and "16-19", apparently Northern HW. Longer incubation/shorter nestling periods in Southern than in Northern HW? -->. They are being fed by both parents, and need plenty of food given their tiny size (see also [[Bergmann's Rule]]). As the young near fledging, the parents spend much of their time procuring food for them. Brood loss due to [[predator|predation]] was found to be light in the Southern Andean [[Yungas]], with predation of nestling young being almost insignificant.<ref name = aueretal2007/> Known predators of house wrens at the nest include [[cat]]s, [[rat]]s, [[opossum]]s, [[woodpecker]]s, [[fox]]es, [[raccoon]]s, [[squirrel]]s, [[snake]]s and [[owl]]s. Adults away from the nests can usually avoid these predators although both small [[hawk]]s and owls occasionally take free-flying adult wrens.<ref>Brown, J. (2001). [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Troglodytes_aedon.html Troglodytes aedon], Animal Diversity Web. Accessed March 18, 2013.</ref>

Migrant populations are nesting within 6 weeks of returning from winter quarters, leaving theoretically time for a second brood.<ref name=OOS/><ref name=Henninger/> In the [[subtropical]] [[montane forest]] of northwestern Argentina and similar habitat, the southern house wren breeds in the rainy summer months from late October to late December.<ref name = aueretal2007 />

In Washington, D.C. area, northern house wren parents made significantly more feeding trips per hour in suburban backyards compared to rural backyards. Yet rural nestlings grew at a faster rate than their suburban counterparts. In addition, suburban parents spent less time brooding (sitting on the nest) compared to rural parents. Such results suggest that suburban backyard habitats offer house wrens food for nestlings that is inferior in either quality or quantity to what rural habitats offer. Food items may, for example, be smaller in suburban habitats, and force adults to make more trips to the box.<ref name = newhouseetal2008/>

===Conservation status===
The house wren may have been displaced somewhat in some northern parts of its range by the introduction of the [[house sparrow]], but is still common and widespread throughout most of North America. It is not considered threatened by the [[IUCN]].<ref name=IUCN/>

==In culture==
[[John James Audubon]] illustrates the house wren in ''[[Birds of America (book)|Birds of America]]'' (published, London 1827–38) as Plate 83. The image was engraved and colored by the Robert Havell, London workshops.

Troglodytes Aedon was one of the two pets of King Friday the XIII in ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]''. Trog, as the King called him, was a wooden wren on a stick, and Trog had his own song. King Friday's other pet was a [[mockingbird]] (a wooden mockingbird on a stick) named [[Mockingbird|Mimus Polyglottos]] (see [[Neighborhood of Make-Believe]]).

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<ref name=v&j2005>VanderGaast, Jay & Jaramillo, Alvaro (2005). [http://www.fieldguides.com/2005weblists/les05LIST.pdf Field Guides Incorporated Trip List – Lesser Antilles April 9, 2005 to April 23, 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408083928/http://www.fieldguides.com/2005weblists/les05LIST.pdf |date=April 8, 2008 }}.</ref>
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Troglodytes aedon|the house wren}}
{{Wikispecies|Troglodytes aedon}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002045/http://www.restoredprints.com/AUD020_John%20Audubon_Birds%20of%20America_House%20Wren.htm#start House Wren by John James Audubon (1821)] – Hi-definition close-up images from Birds of America.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170225205945/https://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/blog/default.cfm?id=141 House Wren Parenting] – Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
*[http://birdweb.org/birdweb/bird_details.aspx?id=340 House Wren] – Birds of Washington State
* {{InternetBirdCollection|northern-house-wren-troglodytes-aedon|Northern House Wren}}
*[http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i7210id.html House Wren – ''Troglodytes aedon''] – USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
*[http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/House_Wren.html House Wren Species Account] – Cornell Lab of Ornithology
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjK2mL5GaMk House Wren] – Video at YouTube
*[http://www.faunascope.com/faunascope/house_wren/index.html Videos from inside a house wren nest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605025339/http://www.faunascope.com/faunascope/house_wren/index.html |date=2008-06-05 }} – Video clips showing development from eggs to fledglings (Faunascope)
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20001021120835/http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/13505600.htm House Wren Stamps]}} at bird-stamps.org
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110106025146/http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/wwwsounds/birds/hardy58sh.wav House Wren Bird Sound] at Florida Museum of Natural History
* {{VIREO|house+wren|House Wren}}
* {{IUCN_Map|22711487|Troglodytes aedon}}

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