The Common Wren
Wren’s are small fast birds that you can find in your own back garden, Their are over 10 million wren’s in the UK alone!. They have been localized to many towns (even maybe in your area) and are compact with quick reflexes and energy.
The Wren have a beautiful song that is loud and full it has a excellent speed and vibrant tones which can last for 5-6 seconds and can be heard a kilo-meter away!!!.
Did You Know?
When a Wren sings if you look closely then you can notice it shakes with effort because the high pitch and loud capacity.
Fun Facts
The Wren is usually seen on the ground running in forest and garden floors at day you can spot many Wren’s in popular woods and forests and the tree’s come alive with the common wren and other species of bird they rarely fly and when they do they hop into the air in quick short gliding bursts and only in straight flapping lines.
They eat insects and spiders searching in cracks of wood, brick, and mud/grass, they rarely take food from a bird table they eat mainly from the ground and if they do take from high bird tables it’s either winter or their very hungry.
Wrens are one of the smallest bird and measure nine to ten centemeters long (9-10cm) and weigh eight to thirteen grams (8-13g)
Birdie Babys
Young Wrens are born naked pink and blind when they hatch they just have enough strength to lift their heads and open their little beacks to eat food that the mother suplies them with usually 5-7 egg are layed and not all survive about two don’t make it through hatching and die but mainly most survive (Sometimes all sometimes none) The Baby Wrens make their mothers busy when they hatch and they barely eat to feed the growing Babys one chick eats up to five hundred to six hundred meals a day (500-600 meals!!!)
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June 27, 2007 @ 1:00 am
I am trying to keep a baby wren alive. The sibling has flown away and the mother bird has abandoned the other one. I’m not sure what to feed it. I fed it some raw egg earlier with an eyedroper - tomorrow I will try and dig up some worms and mash them up for it. Is there anything else I can do to keep it alive? It is very weak because of the mother not feeding it for a couple of days. I have kept it in the nest which is waist high, and have been handeling it with rubber gloves, just in case the mom comes back. Should I give it water. Thanks Nancy
June 27, 2007 @ 10:02 am
It sound like really young wren or a lazy one.
We found a baby starling which was uncooperative when being fed worms and had to be forced fed. We then purchased live maggots (from a fishing-bait shop) and feeding became easy, as soon as it realized it could eat them, it was pecking them off the ground. A fledgling wren will be a lot smaller than a young starling, but the maggot technique should work.
Normally birds gain there water from there food. But if your worried of dehydration you can dip the food your feeding it in water or rub a wet finger around its beak, if its really thirsty it will drink from your finger.
A Wrens natural diet is Beetles, spiders and anything that crawls in between thin rocks and lump of rotting wood. Use tweezers when feeding and it should ideally be fed every 30 minutes, if the maggot technique works feeding will become easier.
If you do have to force feed there’s a possibility you will bruise its beak, but this will heal.
PS: you may find force feeding cruel but a bruise on its beak is better than starvation!
By the way: if you have any pictures of the wren we are more than happy to post them here.
GOOD LUCK! ;0
Kyle Wal
July 2, 2007 @ 5:57 pm
I AM HAD RAINSING 3 BABY WRENS. SMASHED UP DOG KIBBLE IN WARM SURGAR WATER, HARD BOILED EGG YOKE, AND BABY RICE CERAL,,,,,WORKS WONDERS. THE SHRIMP OF THE BROOD IS GROWING AND GIVING HIS SIBLINGS A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY. I HAVE ONLY HAD THEM FOR 4 DAYS AND THEY ALREADY KNOW WHEN THE CAGE DOOR MOVES ITS FEEDING TIME….AND YES YOU HAVE TO FEED EVERY 30 45 MINUTES DURING THE DAY LIGHT HOURS ONLY. THANK GOODNESS THEY SLEEP ALL NIGHT,.
July 29, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
OK,
Just yesturday Jenna found a baby Wren and we are helping her stay alive but we don’t really like to pick up spiders and insects and we think that the baby bird is sick!!!!
EJL
August 3, 2007 @ 12:00 am
We have 2 baby wrens in a birdhouse outside our back door. All was going well, but today, the babies have been screeching all day and no signs of the parents. Is this the parents way of teaching their babies it is time to go out on their own? They appear big enough to fly but have not done so. What should we do?
April 26, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
I found a small spotted egg on the ground today. I thing it may be a wren egg. It was in the sun and still warm. I have made it a little nest and have it under a lamp. If it is a wren, how long should I wate to see if it hatches?
April 28, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
A Wrens eggs can hatch in 4 - 5 Weeks but it dosent sound like a Wrens but more like a cuckoo.
Kyle Wal
May 28, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Hi, just read all the above. I saw this chick hopping in the road, round with quite long legs, only guessing it’s a wren, but also bald around the back end? Anyway, not too sure what to do with it. HELP!! I have picked it off the road and put it in the hedgerow at the rear of my garden as don’t want to frighten it to death, but feel I should be doing something. Any ideas? Don’t want it to just die - poor little thing!
June 5, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
I’m at my wits end! have 3 baby wrens still with downy fur rather than feathers, in a nest in some windchimes on the patio, parent been so active feeding them for 3 days constantly! but ive not seen parent since 8 last night, chicks almost falling out of nest and constantly calling, i’m so upset and not sure what to do..i work 8 til 3 each day so i cant always keep ann eye out as to what will happen..any advice! Many thanks Nat
June 20, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
I have 5 baby wrens,only 2 to 5 days old. I went to a local pet store (that fish place in lancaster Pa ) and purchased Exact baby bird formula.Ihave been feeding them with a syringe for baby medicine.They are all doing great!you have to remove the droppings immediately.and also keep the food off their feathers.In 1 week i started to introduce the bugs.They were a little shy at first but they get the hang of it.I am going to band them to see if they return!!
June 21, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
We had a Wren nest under our deck. One of the babies (much larger) left the nest and the parents followed abandoning the two smaller babies. I suspect the much larger baby was not a Wren but a parasite cowbird baby. The unsuspecting Wren parents do not know they have left their own babies to follow and care for this cowbird baby. Cowbirds are parasites and lay their eggs in other birds nests. After about 24 hours of no parent feeding we have started feeding the babies ourselves. The Wren babies are quite young and I think we will need some prayers if this is going to work.
July 2, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
Hi, I found a very small brownish fledgling yesterday - I thought he might either be a sparrow or a wren. I have been feeding it meal worms cut in half (eeurgh) which it is eating every 30 or so mins. He has got a very upright tail, perhaps more likely to be a wren? unfortunately he has a leg injury where the leg goes out in a straight line behind him, dislocated hip perhaps?? if anyone has any good advice i look forward to hearing it. but thanks for the forum, very interesting and informative!!
July 2, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
i went to the vet today to get something for my cat, and there was a lady there with a baby wren, probably just a couple of days out of the nest since its tail feathers are so short. i suggested she put it back where she found it, but she took it in last night, so it was too late to bring it back to the parents.
i took it from her because she didn’t want to keep it. Now i’m trying to hand feed it, but i’m not sure what to feed it. i’m trying cat food right now, mixed with a little water to get it in the dropper. i guess i’ll be taking a baby bird to class with me tomorrow!
if anyone has any suggestions, please please let me know. i work with birds in the wild, but i am not really sure what i’m doing with this one.
July 27, 2008 @ 5:18 am
My pretty little bengal kitten brought me a gift of a very quiet (but breathing) baby wren, I have no idea where she has brought it in from, no idea about the age it could have been from the nest or maybe old enough to have been hopping around on the floor. I felt distraught so last night…… and I can not believe I did this, i cut up a slug and fed it using tweasers (now I feel guilty about the slug)… I made a nest in a china bowl using cotton wool pads and a few soft leaves (to make it feel like home).
this morning (at 5.00) I have a chirpy little thing that is hopping and looking much more confident. So the dilema is, is it ok, should I let it go and keep the cat in for a day or two, to give it a fighting chance, or should I try and feed it for a few days?
August 7, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
have a brood of young wrens in a man-made spruce nest in my garden,,,noticed that the adults had seemed to have disappeared altogether and the young were making a right racket and were almost falling out the nest,,,i think they must only be a week old max….but who am i to say? so waited for signs of adult visits,,,none happened,,,took decision to start feeding them chopped worms,,,thought i would give them a fighting chance,,hoping the adults may return otherwise may get some maggots tommorrow and keep feeding them…seems to be working so far….play it by ear i guess?? any advice.. my expectations of them surviving are realistically low but worth a try, i think….
August 30, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
my comment to Campbell is to keep feeding them in till they start trying to fly off your doing the right thing feeding them small pieces of food don’t forget to occasionally dunk the worms in water so the wrens get liquids.
if it is a week old it should be a fluffy white or brown color with a small beak if it cant open its eyes its younger than a week.
use twisers so they don’t get use to humans there’s nothing worse than a bird not being afraid from a human being.
Kyle Law
Hope i could help.
September 1, 2008 @ 2:59 am
Ive been taking care of several wrens for about a week. Our local nature center told me to feed the birds dry cat food that has been soaked in water till soft. Works great and the birds love it. A good alternative till I can release them.
September 1, 2008 @ 11:58 am
Good Work Regina they should released in 2 to 3 weeks time just keep doing what your doing Keep me posted.
Kyle