winter wren

American  

noun

1. (in the Western Hemisphere) a small wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, of coniferous forests.

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Etymology

Origin of winter wren

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

There's the winter wren, too-saucy, inquisitive little imp!—he was here all winter, and has left us without vouchsafing a note.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson

My first winter in Kansas was the severest I experienced in that state; yet it was the only winter of the five I spent in Kansas that brought me the winter wren.

From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

The only creatures in all God's world possessing the right to utter aloud a single syllable are the loon, far away, and the winter wren, near at hand.

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward

An old hemlock wood at the head waters of the Delaware is a chosen haunt of the winter wren.

From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz

And in this connection I remember, and am not likely ever to forget, a winter wren who favored me with what I thought the most bewitching bit of vocalism to which I had ever listened.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford