New Zealand wren

English

Noun

New Zealand wren (plural New Zealand wrens)

  1. A passerine bird of the family Acanthisittidae, including two living several extinct species in four or five genera. [from 19th c.]
    • 2016 October 19, Hanneke Meijer, “Why you can thank geology for your morning songbird chorus”, in The Guardian‎:
      Suboscines (Tyranni) are mostly found in the Neotropics, whereas the small New Zealand wrens (Acanthisitti) are limited to, you guessed it, New Zealand.
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