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Pacific Wren
Troglodytes pacificus
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About the Pacific Wren
The Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus) is a very small North American bird and a member of the mainly New World wren family Troglodytidae. The species was formerly lumped together with either the winter wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) of eastern North America alone, or also with the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) of Eurasia, then under the merged name of northern wren with the scientific name T. troglodytes having priority. It breeds along the Pacific coast from Alaska to California and inland as far as Wyoming and the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Troglodytes pacificus
- Family
- Wrens
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the wrens family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Band-backed Wren Campylorhynchus zonatus
- Banded Wren Thryophilus pleurostictus
- Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
- Boucard's Wren Campylorhynchus jocosus
- Cabanis's Wren Cantorchilus modestus
- Cactus Wren Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus
- Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Clarion Wren Troglodytes tanneri
- Cozumel Wren Troglodytes beani
- Giant Wren Campylorhynchus chiapensis
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
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