blue wren

English

Noun

blue wren (plural blue wrens)

1. Any of various species of fairywren, the male of which acquires blue adult or breeding plumage.
   • 1933 October 21, “The Courier Mail”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 21:

     The winter has been long and somewhat severe, and the robins, therefore, have been well in evidence, also Jacky Winters, double-bars, and blue wrens.

   • 1962, Elizabeth Lane, chapter 13, in Mad As Rabbits, page 107:

     As we went along, Mother had to look this way and that to follow the line of some excited finger pointing out a blue wren's nest or the place where Charlie killed the snake.