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| Winter wren | |
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| In Prospect Park, New York. | |
| Song recorded in Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Michigan | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Troglodytes |
| Species: | T. hiemalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Troglodytes hiemalis Vieillot, 1819
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Breeding
Migration
Year-round
Nonbreeding
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| Synonyms | |
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Olbiorchilus hiemalis | |
The winter wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) is a very small North American bird and a member of the mainly New World wren family Troglodytidae. The species contained the congeneric Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus) of western North America and Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) of Eurasia until they were split in 2010.[2]
It breeds in coniferous forests from British Columbia to the Atlantic Ocean. It migrates through and winters across southeastern Canada, the eastern half the United States and (rarely) north-eastern Mexico. Small numbers may be casual in the western United States and Canada.
The scientific name for its genus is taken from the Greek word troglodytes (from "trogle" a hole, and "dyein" to creep), meaning "cave-dweller", and may refer to their tendency to nest in cavities or their foraging behavior, in which the winter wren almost exclusively ground-gleans in thick underbrush.[3][4][5]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Troglodytes hiemalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103885731A104334569. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103885731A104334569.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Winter Wren". Cornell Lab - All About Birds. 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Jones, Calvin (2012). "Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)". Ireland's Wildlife. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Murakami, Masashi; Nakano, Shigeru (2001). "Species-specific foraging behavior of birds in a riparian forest". Ecological Research. 16: 913–923. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00448.x.