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Northern House Wren Range Map

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Range Map for Northern House Wren

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Short to medium-distance migrant. Most Northern House Wrens breeding in the U.S. and Canada migrate to the southern U.S. and Mexico for the nonbreeding season.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2024) Distribution map for Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon. Modified accounting for taxonomic differences from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2021) Bird species distribution maps of the world. Version 2021.1.

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Wrens(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Troglodytidae)

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