blue wren

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blue wren (plural blue wrens)

  1. Any of various species of fairywren (tribe Malurini in the family Maluridae), 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.