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The house wren complex has been split into eight species: Northern house wren, Troglodytes aedon; Southern house wren, Troglodytes musculus; Cozumel wren, Troglodytes beani; Kalinago wren, Troglodytes martinicensis; St. Lucia wren, Troglodytes mesoleucus; St. Vincent wren, Troglodytes musicus; Grenada wren, Troglodytes grenadensis; Cobb's wren ...
The southern house wren (Troglodytes musculus) is a very small passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae. It is found from southern Mexico to southern Chile and southern Argentina. The name troglodytes means "hole dweller", and is a reference to the bird's tendency to disappear into crevices when hunting insects or to seek shelter.
The northern house wren was formally described in 1809 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the current binomial name Troglodytes aedon. [2] The specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek aēdōn meaning "nightingale". [3]
The insular species include the Clarión wren and Socorro wren from the Revillagigedo Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and Cobb's wren in the Falkland Islands, but few Caribbean islands have a species of wren, with only the southern house wren in the Lesser Antilles, the Cozumel wren of Cozumel Island, and the highly restricted Zapata wren in a ...
The Socorro wren, in older times placed into Thryomanes (Bewick's wren), is actually a close relative of the house wren complex, as indicated by "manners, song, plumage, etc." [5] and by biogeography and mtDNA NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequence analysis.
One sound not in the house wren's repertoire is "a bright springy trill, tseeeurr or ssreeuur, suggesting a rock wren." [2] The brown-throated wren's behavior is, perhaps unsurprisingly, similar to the house wren's: [2] typically skulking but not infrequently visible, especially when singing from an open perch. [3]
The Cozumel wren (Troglodytes beani) is a very small passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae that is endemic to the small island of Cozumel off the eastern coast of Mexico. The name troglodytes means "hole dweller", and is a reference to the bird's tendency to disappear into crevices when hunting insects or to seek shelter.
Wren house may refer to a wren house, see nest box; Wren House at Kensington Palace; See also. Wren Building, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States;