Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus)

Other Scientific Names
Salpinctes mexicanus [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Family
Troglodytidae (Wrens)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1829)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude shrubland. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Canada, Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 700,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (100)...)

Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus) [XC563010]
by Andoni from San Simon, Cochise County, Arizona, United States (song)

Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus) [XC502155]
by from East Loma Alta Drive, Altadena, Los Angeles County, California, United States (call)

Subspecies
Probably closest to Hylorchilus. Other described subspecies, all from USA, are griseus (Yakima County, in southern Washington), punctulatus (Placer County, in east-central California) and polioptilus (Chisos Mts, in Texas), but plumage variations of these are not constant, and no clear-cut geographical boundaries are apparent.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

pallidior Phillips, AR, 1986 - South-western Canada (southern British Columbia) and western USA (south to north-eastern Utah and north-western Colorado).
conspersus Ridgway, 1873 - South-western USA (from northern Nevada and central Colorado) south to north-western Mexico (south to central Baja California).
albifrons (Giraud, 1841) - Southern USA (south-western Texas) and northern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo Le�n).
meliphonus Oberholser, 1930 - North-western Mexico (western Sonora and west-central Chihuahua south to Sinaloa and Durango).
croizati Phillips, AR, 1986 - Southern Baja California.
cantator Phillips, AR, 1966 - Central Mexico (Nayarit south to Michoac�n).
mexicanus (Swainson, 1829) - Mexican plateau from Durango and Jalisco south to Colima and Oaxaca, also disjunctly in south-western Chiapas.
griseus Aldrich, 1946 - South-western Canada and north-western USA.
punctulatus Ridgway, 1882 - Esst-central California (western USA).

References
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Files:

JPG files for Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus) - 10 files

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