Marsh Wren

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Troglodytidae

Genus

Cistothorus

eBird Code

marwre

Subspecies (15)

• Cistothorus palustris aestuarinus

  coastal central Oregon to southern California (Ventura County), the Central Valley, and desert marshes of southern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Arizona

• Cistothorus palustris browningi

  coastal marshes of southwestern British Columbia to central Washington

• Cistothorus palustris clarkae

  coastal southern California (Los Angeles County to San Diego County, inland to western Riverside County)

• Cistothorus palustris deserticola

  southeastern California (southwestern USA)

• Cistothorus palustris dissaeptus

  breeds south-central Canada to north-central and northeastern USA; winters to northeastern Mexico

• Cistothorus palustris griseus

  coastal marshes of northeastern South Carolina to east-central Florida

• Cistothorus palustris iliacus

  breeds south-central Canada to central USA; winters to Gulf Coast

• Cistothorus palustris laingi

  breeds west-central Canada to Montana; winters to southern Mexico

• Cistothorus palustris marianae

  coastal marshes of far eastern Texas to southwestern Florida

• Cistothorus palustris paludicola

  southwestern Washington to northwestern Oregon

• Cistothorus palustris palustris

  coastal marshes of New England to Virginia

• Cistothorus palustris plesius

  breeds southeastern Idaho to Colorado and New Mexico; winters to central Mexico

• Cistothorus palustris pulverius

  central British Columbia and Idaho to northeastern and eastern California (east of the Sierra Nevada to northern Inyo County) and adjacent western Nevada

• Cistothorus palustris tolucensis

  central Mexico (Río Lerma marshes to Hidalgo and western Puebla)

• Cistothorus palustris waynei

  coastal marshes of southern Virginia to North Carolina