Eurasian Wren

The Eurasian Wren is tiny, compact, and always in motion, with a short tail often held cocked. It looks like a little bundle that keeps slipping into grass, under shrubs, and through piles of fallen wood.

It hardly stays still for long, moving quickly through cover and usually keeping low. When it sings, it often chooses a stump, a branch, or a heap of brush, and its voice is startlingly loud for such a small body — sharp calls and busy trills that give it away.

It likes dense undergrowth, damp woods, hedges, gardens, and parks. It feeds mainly on insects and other small invertebrates, then adds berries and seeds in autumn; in milder places it may stay all year, while in the far north some move away for winter.