Wrentit
The wrentit (Chamaea fasciata) is a small bird that lives in chaparral, oak woodlands, and bushland on the western coast of North America. It is the only species in the genus Chamaea. Its systematics have been the subject of much debate, the wrentit having been placed in many different families by different authors for as long as it has been known to science. Its common name reflects the uncertainty, and its external resemblance to both tits and wrens. It is by no means closely related to either, however.
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
By hour of day
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.
Where heard
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Elsewhere
Recordings
Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.