Arizona's state bird fends for itself against predators in the desert, making its home in prickly plants. Here's what to know and how to spot it.

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 ...