Wren (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Wrens are passerine birds in the family Troglodytidae.
Wren or Wrens may also refer to:
Other birds
[edit]- New Zealand wren (Acanthisittidae)
- Maluridae, the Australasian "wrens"
- Acanthizidae subfamily Sericornithinae, the scrubwrens, heathwrens and fernwren
Buildings
[edit]- Wren Building, the oldest academic building in the US, at the College of William & Mary, Virginia
- Wren Library, the library of Trinity College in Cambridge
- Wren House, a house on the grounds of Kensington Palace in London
Military
[edit]- Wrens, nickname of members of the British Women's Royal Naval Service
- Wrens, nickname of members of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service
- HMS Wren, two ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Wren, a destroyer that served in World War II
Music
[edit]- The Wrens, a band from New Jersey, USA formed in the 1980s
- The Wrens (R&B band), a doo-wop singing group from New York City from the 1950s
- Wren (record label), Wales; see Meic Stevens
- "Wren", a song by Tara VanFlower from My Little Fire-Filled Heart, 2005
Places in the United States
[edit]Radio stations
[edit]- WREN (AM), a defunct radio station (590 AM) licensed to Carrollton, Alabama, United States
- WREN-LP, a low-power radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
- KYYS, a radio station in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, licensed as WREN from 1927 until 1999
Other uses
[edit]- Wren (crater), on the planet Mercury
- Wren (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the surname or given name
- The Wrens, a nickname for the Rydalmere Cricket Club, New South Wales, Australia
- Wren & Martin, a series of English grammar textbooks published in India
- Çalıkuşu, or The Wren, a 1922 novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin
- Wren, the protagonist of a series of fantasy novels by Sherwood Smith
- Wren Society, a secret society at the College of William & Mary
- English Electric Wren, a 1920s British ultralight monoplane
- Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network
- Wren's Super Wax Shoe Polish, a shoe polish brand existing since 1889
- Wren Kitchens, a British kitchen retailer, designer and manufacturer
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing wren
- Wrens of the Curragh, nickname given to camp women and prostitutes servicing the British Army in the Curragh Camp in Co. Kildare, Ireland in the 19th century
- Wrenn (disambiguation)
- Ren (disambiguation)