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Males may have black throats and masks, while females are generally lighter and may have a brown line extending backward from each eye.

Coloring: Like wrens, there are many subspecies of sparrow, and their coloring varies but generally, they have dark brown wings and white underparts.

Body shape: Sparrows are generally longer and more slender than wrens.

Size: Sparrows are typically larger than wrens most sparrows are at least 6 inches long with wingspan of 5 ½ to 7 inches, sometimes larger.

Let’s explore their identifying features: Sparrows are also small but are easy to distinguish from wrens if you know what to look for.

Song: Wrens have a loud, trilling, clicking type of a call it is made using fast clicks in succession, is rather high-pitched, and is remarkably loud for a sound made by such a small bird.

They sometimes keep their tails pointed vertically.

Tail length: Wrens have relatively short tails compared to their overall body size.

Bill shape: Wrens have very long and slender bills that look almost needle-like, especially when the bill is opened.

This white marking looks similar to an eyebrow.

“Eyebrow:” Most wrens have a white line above each eye that extends toward the back of the head.

Coloring: There are different subspecies of wren, and their coloring varies, but in general, wrens are light brown and speckled with lighter tones on the underside and darker tones on the topside.

They are generally more squat-looking than sparrows.

Body shape: Wrens have a rounded, almost puffy-looking body shape.

According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, wrens are about 9 to 10 cm (3 to 4 inches) long, with a wingspan of about 13 to 17 cm (5 to 6 ½ inches).

Size: Wrens are very small–even smaller than sparrows.The oldest recorded House Wren was at least 9 years old, when it was recaptured and rereleased during banding operations in New York in 1993, the same state where it had been banded.Wrens are small birds with big voices.

Young males may take clues from more experienced males about what areas are good nesting sites. Experienced males tend to settle farther apart. Male House Wrens returning north to breed in their first year are more likely to settle close to an established male than farther from it.If a cold snap chills a nest below about 65 degrees Fahrenheit for more than a day it can also doom the eggs. If a sun-drenched nest box warms above about 106 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour, the eggs will begin to die. For House Wren eggs, temperature inside the nest box can be critical to survival.

In some areas they are the main source of nest failure for bluebirds, Tree Swallows, Prothonotary Warblers, and chickadees. Wrens will harass and peck at much larger birds, sometimes dragging eggs and young out of a nest site they want – even occasionally killing adult birds. A House Wren weighs about as much as two quarters, but it’s a fierce competitor for nest holes.In lab studies, once the spiders hatched, they helped the wrens by devouring the nest parasites. Perhaps to fight this problem, wrens often add spider egg sacs into the materials they build their nests from. As the season progresses their nests can become infested with mites and other parasites that feed on the wren nestlings. House Wrens nest inside tree holes and nest boxes.It breeds from Canada through the West Indies and Central America, southward to the southernmost point of South America. The House Wren has one of the largest ranges of any songbird in the New World.