Grass Wren

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Troglodytidae

Genus

Cistothorus

eBird Code

sedwre

Subspecies (17)

• Cistothorus platensis aequatorialis

  Andes from Venezuela and Colombia southward to northern Peru (Cajamarca); southern distributional limit not yet documented

• Cistothorus platensis alticola

  Venezuela (coastal mountains, highlands of the Gran Sabana) and (?) Guyana

• Cistothorus platensis elegans

  south-central Guatemala

• Cistothorus platensis falklandicus

  Falkland Islands

• Cistothorus platensis graberi

  eastern Honduras to northeastern Nicaragua

• Cistothorus platensis graminicola

  Andes of central Peru (Huánuco to Junín); no doubt more widespread, but northern and southern distributional limits not yet documented

• Cistothorus platensis hornensis

  southern Argentina (Neuquén) and Chile (Coquimbo) to Tierra del Fuego

• Cistothorus platensis jalapensis

  eastern Mexico (interior central Veracruz to Orizaba region)

• Cistothorus platensis lucidus

  subtropical central Costa Rica to western Panama (Chiriquí)

• Cistothorus platensis minimus

  southern Peru to southern Bolivia

• Cistothorus platensis platensis

  central and eastern Argentina to Córdoba and Mendoza

• Cistothorus platensis polyglottus

  Bolivia (Beni and Santa Cruz) and southeastern Brazil (Goiás and Minas Gerais to Paraná); intergrades with platensis in southern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and southern Brazil (Río Grande do Sul)

• Cistothorus platensis potosinus

  north-central Mexico (San Luis Potosí)

• Cistothorus platensis russelli

  pine ridge region of Belize

• Cistothorus platensis tinnulus

  western Mexico (Nayarit to Michoacán, México, and Distrito Federal)

• Cistothorus platensis tucumanus

  southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina

• Cistothorus platensis warneri

  tropical southern Mexico (Veracruz, Tabasco, and western Chiapas)