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Marsh Wren
Cistothorus palustris · Family Troglodytidae
Cistothorus palustris
Family Troglodytidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Troglodytidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,064,019
- Countries and territories with records
- 6
About this species
This species has 2,064,019 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (86%) and Canada (13.1%); together they account for 99.1% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.16% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cistothorus palustris combines the genus name Cistothorus with the species epithet palustris. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Cistothorus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cistothorus platensis, Cistothorus stellaris and Cistothorus apolinari.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Troglodytidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thryothorus ludovicianus. Its record count is 4.7 times the family average (435,441). The family Troglodytidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.