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Northern House Wren
Troglodytes aedon · Family Troglodytidae
Troglodytes aedon
Family Troglodytidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Troglodytidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 6,618,667
- Countries and territories with records
- 42
About this species
This species has 6,618,667 occurrence records from 42 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (88.4%) and Canada (10.1%); together they account for 98.6% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.53% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Troglodytes aedon combines the genus name Troglodytes with the species epithet aedon. The Warbla app catalog lists 14 species of the genus Troglodytes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Troglodytes troglodytes, Troglodytes musculus and Troglodytes hiemalis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Troglodytidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thryothorus ludovicianus. Its record count is 15.2 times the family average (435,441). The family Troglodytidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.