Learn how to make a purple martin gourd house. Generally, small songbirds need small houses; large birds require large houses. House wrens are happy with an 8-inch-tall house with a 4- by 6-inch ...

Though house wrens are notorious for building nests ... of few species that tolerate swaying birdhouses. “After I hung a gourd birdhouse in one of the pines near my garden, a wren (above ...