Carolina Wren

Thryothorus ludovicianus

common Least Concern

Live from the dock

Active 13,107 minutes across 159 days since May 2026. Last heard yesterday.

In our records

Hear the call

Reference recording · 24 sec

Bollweevil3 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

When you'll hear it

Most often heard in the morning, 8 to 11 a.m. Quiet overnight.

Minutes active by hour, as a table

Minutes active by hour of day
	12 AM	1 AM	2 AM	3 AM	4 AM	5 AM	6 AM	7 AM	8 AM	9 AM	10 AM	11 AM	NOON	1 PM	2 PM	3 PM	4 PM	5 PM	6 PM	7 PM	8 PM	9 PM	10 PM	11 PM
Minutes active	0	0	0	0	0	6	789	1495	1362	1236	1061	923	924	807	672	679	630	721	742	694	354	12	0	0

Across the year

Present from late-April through October. First heard this year on May 2.

Dock records

First heard: May 2, 2026
Busiest day: 183 minutes on July 10, 2026
Earliest call: 5:52 a.m.
Days detected: 159 of 162 days monitored

Common questions

What time of day do you hear a Carolina Wren at Watts Bar Lake?

Most often heard in the morning, 8 to 11 a.m. Quiet overnight. These are the hours the dock microphones detect the Carolina Wren most often.

What time of year is the Carolina Wren at Watts Bar Lake?

Present from late-April through October. First heard this year on May 2. That window is when the Carolina Wren has been audible from the Watts Bar Lake dock.

Has the Carolina Wren been heard at Watts Bar Lake?

Yes. Active 13,107 minutes across 159 days since May 2026. Last heard yesterday.

How these counts work

5 microphones listen from the dock, day and night. They only count birds from a fixed regional list of 226 species, so a bird that cannot occur here is never added by mistake. Every species has its own confidence bar, and that bar rises when the wind picks up and the audio gets noisy. A bird is not counted until it turns up again across several short listening windows that together cover at least ten minutes. Because the bar sits that high, when this page calls a bird rare, it really is rare.

All of the microphones sit at one spot, our dock, so these counts describe what is audible from that shoreline, not the whole lake. A bird that stays quiet here, or sings out of earshot, can be nearby and still never reach the numbers.

These records are generated automatically from the audio, and no person reviews them one by one. The software is not perfect and sometimes tags the wrong bird, most often on a faint or distant call. Read each as a bird the microphones detected, not a sighting someone checked by hand.

About the bird

The Carolina wren is a species of wren common in the eastern United States, the extreme south of Ontario, Canada, the northeast and southeast of Mexico, and into northern Central America. Severe winters restrict the northern limits of their range, while favorable weather conditions lead to a northward extension of their breeding range.

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