So this is not what an adult banded wren sounds like at all. We have another recording, and perhaps we can listen to the adult example as well just as a comparison. DETROW: Oh, that's so different.

Male wrens cycle through a repertoire of various phrasing. The bird has been called “mocking wren” because it sometimes sounds like a catbird, kingfisher or certain other birds. They are year ...

A July 28, 1985, article in The Republic described the sound of the cactus wren as “a dissonant sort of summer insect chortle, or the sound a toad in heat might make.” The Tucson Audubon ...