The animal itself
The wren's song reaches over 90 decibels relative to its body size — gram for gram louder than a crowing rooster. It weighs about 10 grams.1 of 2 calendars · 20 searches a month
Wren
The wren is read as small presence with outsized voice. It appears in one of the two birth calendars we cover. The two are presented online as interchangeable, yet they name the same animal on only 17 days of 365 — 4.7% of the year.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Celtic calendar
10 June – 7 July
Its tree
Oak
Only the Celtic calendar assigns this one. Anyone born in these dates gets a different animal from the other system — the two agree on 4.7% of days →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Small presence with an outsized voice.
Honoured in: Called the king of birds in Celtic and Greek fable, having won the crown by hiding on the eagle's back and flying higher at the last moment.
Counted across all 39 animals
Where the wren sits
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
39th
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
Both calendars are published online as though interchangeable. They are not, and the disagreement is the reason two sites can give you different animals for the same birthday. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Wren is ranked 39 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.