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 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.