Carolina Wren
(Adopted 1948)

Small, energetic brown birds with slim, slightly curved bills. They may cock their tails, or dip them when they sing. There are 63 species in the world; 9 in North America. This large wren is identified by its bright rusty color and broad white eyebrow stripe. Unlike the House Wren, it is sedentary, residing from the southern Great Lakes and southern New England to the Gulf, but not in the West. Its song is a 3-syllabled chant sounding like tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea.