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Species
Least Concernmarsh wren
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyTroglodytidae
via IUCN
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Encyclopedic overview
Singing in a marsh at Hammonasset Beach, Connecticut 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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marsh Wren” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.