wrens
maluridae

These are the rich wrens and they have a good thing.

Four houses on the right, sitting close together in a line like wrens.

They don't go in for bright colors any more than we Wrens do.

Children 11 through 13 learn about wrens and can build a wren house to take home.

The name is said to mean "old forest inhabited by wrens".

He had great affection for the wrens, though they did sometimes pick his brains.

We like wrens; they are brave little birds, and go after bad bugs.

Although it lost one with the terrible make-over of the Wrens.

Without a record company and without much money, the Wrens began work on an album, their third.

They gave it, and the wrens advised him to stop up the holes with clay.

There are approximately 80 species of true wrens in about 20 genera.

An old stump will attract Carolina wrens looking for insects.

My fragile sense of well-being cracked like the wrens' eggs.

There have now been more than one hundred generations of wrens there.

Wrens rarely get a real ship, you see, and some of the old hands look on us as intruders, to say the least.

As with some other wrens, pairs often sing in duets.

You said it was one of your Wrens.

In the beginning there were mostly sparrows and wrens.

In addition, "I would discourage house wrens," she continued.

Wrens and larks sang to one another across the rooftops.

His house wrens literally nest in a man's hat.

The purpose of this behaviour, which does not elicit a response from other nearby wrens, remains unknown.

Wrens have loud and often complex songs, sometimes given in duet by a pair.

It has short wings and a long tail often held high (hence the comparison to wrens).

Some, such as the wrens and tuatara, are so unique that they have been called living fossils.

Amytornis is a genus of birds in the Maluridae family.

Within Maluridae, it is one of 12 species in the genus, Malurus.

The emu-wrens (Stipiturus) are a genus of bird in the fairy-wren family Maluridae.

Campbell's Fairywren (Chenorhamphus campbelli) is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.

If the nest, or young, are threatened both adult sexes employ the "rodent-run" predator distracting technique typical of the Maluridae.

The Mallee Emu-wren (Stipiturus mallee) is a bird species in the family Maluridae.

A Monograph of the Maluridae, Landsdowne Editions, Melbourne (1982).

Meliphagoidea - Highlighting relationships of Maluridae on Tree Of Life Web Project.

The Thick-billed Grasswren or Western Grasswren (Amytornis textilis) is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.

It was presumed that cooperative breeding-present in many or most members of the Maluridae, Meliphagidae, Artamidae and Corvidae, among others-is a common apomorphy of this group.

Initially fairywrens were thought to be a member of the old world flycatcher family Muscicapidae or warbler family Sylviidae before being placed in the newly recognised Maluridae in 1975.

The 'Superb Fairy-wren' ('Malurus cyaneus'), also known as 'Superb Blue-wren' or colloquially as 'Blue wren', is a common and familiar passerine bird of the Maluridae family.

More recently, DNA analysis has shown the Maluridae family to be related to the Meliphagidae (honeyeaters), and the Pardalotidae (pardalotes, scrubwrens, thornbills, gerygones and allies) in the large superfamily Meliphagoidea.

The Splendid Fairywren (Malurus splendens), also known simply as the Splendid Wren or more colloquially in Western Australia as the Blue Wren, is a passerine bird of the Maluridae family.

With further morphological work and the great strides made in DNA analysis towards the end of the 20th century, their position became clear: the Maluridae are one of the many families to have emerged from the great corvid radiation in Australasia.

The 27 Australasian "wren" species in the family Maluridae are unrelated, as are the New Zealand wrens in the family Acanthisittidae, the antwrens in the family Thamnophilidae, and the wren-babblers of the family Timaliidae.

It was first classified as a member of the old world flycatcher family Muscicapidae by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, though it was later placed in the warbler family Sylviidae by the same author, before being placed in the newly recognised Maluridae in 1975.