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I and the Bird: What is a Wren?

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And they absolutely do that, but there are few birds in north America, at least, for which the family seem less fitting. But for those of us in the Americas, the cup runs over with species of Troglodytes. We’re spoiled then, in the northern Americas, by our loud and garrulous wrens. House Wren , Troglodytes aedon.

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