blue wren

English

Noun

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.