This week’s featured creature is a rather dull looking little brown bird that passes through the Ada area during spring and fall migration. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology reports that the house wren ...

For us, summer usually starts on Mother’s Day when our back-of-the-garage garden plot begins to take shape. Today we can see the first yellow flowers on our tomato plants and our peppers, zucchini and ...

Looking for birding opportunities close to home? Birds with “house” built into their names are, not surprisingly, common urban residents. Three such birds found in Minnesota include the house wren, ...

The northern house wren (Troglodytes aedon) presents remarkable gusto in a small package. The tiny, energetic bird, with its inconspicuous brownish-gray plumage, is the most common of at least nine ...