page_title: Eurasian wren
section_title: Cultural depictions
hierarchical_section_title: Eurasian wren / Relationship with humans / Cultural depictions
caption_attribution_description: Low-resolution scanned image of the cover of the first edition of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1865-18th January 1936), illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) and downloaded on english wikipedia by (Sanjay Tiwari 00:37, 10 October 2006 (UTC)) from the website [1]. Since both the author and illustrator passed away more than 70 years ago, the cover image is now in the public domain in the U.S.
context_page_description: The Eurasian wren is a very small bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa. In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren. It was once lumped with Troglodytes hiemalis of eastern North America and Troglodytes pacificus of western North America as the winter wren. The Eurasian wren occurs in Europe and across the Palearctic – including a belt of Asia from northern Iran and Afghanistan across to Japan. It is migratory in only the northern parts of its range. It is also highly polygynous, an unusual mating system for passerines.
  The scientific name is taken from the Greek word "troglodytes", meaning "cave-dweller", and refers to its habit of disappearing into cavities or crevices whilst hunting arthropods or to roost. The taxonomy of the genus Troglodytes is currently unresolved, as recent molecular studies have suggested that Cistothorus spp. and Thryorchilus spp. are within the clade currently defined by Troglodytes.
context_section_description: In The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Limmershin, the winter wren, who was once thought of as the same species as the Eurasian wren, is the narrator of "The White Seal" story.
  Wrens have been featured on stamps from Albania, Albany, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Britain, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Netherlands, San Mario, USA and The Vatican.
  The Wren is one of the animals of the Celtic zodiac.
  The old British farthing coin featured a wren on the reverse side from 1937 to 1960. The wren was chosen because it was thought of as Britain's smallest bird.
caption: A copy of The Jungle Book
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