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Western Marsh Wren

Cistothorus palustris plesius

Classification

Class
Aves

The marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris) is a small North American songbird of the wren family. It was formerly called the long-billed marsh wren to distinguish it from the sedge wren, then known as the short-billed marsh wren. Taxonomy The marsh wren was described by the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson in 1810 and given the binomial name Certhia palustris.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 16Canada · 1