The other morning, I had just scattered seed for the quail and other ground-feeding birds and filled their watering dish. Amongst the usual finches, quail, thrashers and chickadees, I noticed a bird ...

It was a game of cat and mouse, and this cat was not about to win. I was chasing a cactus wren through a prickly patch of cholla with high hopes of getting a good photo. But the wren just kept darting ...

My name is: Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus, but I also answer to cactus wren. I'm the best-known wren in these parts, and I'm Arizona's state bird. I break the rules: Most wrens are small and plain, ...

Oblivious to the spines, a pair of cactus wrens busied themselves with making a nest in the fork of a cholla cactus in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s Alamo Canyon. Cactus wrens were still ...

What a cactus wren lacks in good looks and pretty songs, it makes up for in home construction. The home is both a nest and a place to live throughout the year. That’s critical for a bird living in the ...

A coastal cactus wren on a live cholla. Frequent wildfires have charred the wren’s habitat in southern California. Scientists have built fake cholla, made of PVC pipe and barbed wire, for the birds to ...