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title: "Winter Wren"
description: "Troglodytes hiemalis — Birds. The winter wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) is a very small North American bird and a member of the mainly New World wren family Troglodytidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/winter-wren
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Winter Wren

> Troglodytes hiemalis — Birds. The winter wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) is a very small North American bird and a member of the mainly New World wren family Troglodytidae.

- Scientific name: *Troglodytes hiemalis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 12045
- Wikidata: [Q10828228](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10828228)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144883](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144883)

## Names

- en: Winter Wren
- de: Winterzaunkönig
- es: Saltapared Cholino del Este
- fr: Troglodyte des forêts
- nl: Oost-Amerikaanse winterkoning
- pl: Strzyżyk amerykański

## Countries with the most observations

US (7960), CA (2622), MX (24)

## Summary

The winter wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) is a very small North American bird and a member of the mainly New World wren family Troglodytidae. The species was formerly often lumped together with Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) of Eurasia and Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus) of western North America under the merged name of northern wren (with the scientific name T. troglodytes having priority), until they were split in 2010.
It breeds in coniferous forests from British Columbia to the Atlantic Ocean. It migrates through and winters across southeastern Canada, the eastern half the United States and (rarely…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_wren

## Photo

![Winter Wren](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/winter-wren/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andy Wilson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144883

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/winter-wren?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).