Additional Information
English Eurasian Wren
Scientific (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Troglodytidae
Family (English) Wrens
Other name(s) Northern Wren
Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Nepal,Somalia,Guinea,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Indonesia,Portugal,Nigeria,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Maldives,Bangladesh,Mali,Croatia,Swaziland,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,India - mainland,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Belgium,Burkina Faso,Monaco,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Cambodia,Libya,Rwanda,North Korea,Syria,Benin,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Macao,Sri Lanka,China,Sierra Leone,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Qatar,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Iceland,Ghana,Djibouti,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Italy,Zimbabwe,Bhutan,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Andorra,Albania,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Congo,South Sudan,Montenegro,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
islandicus Iceland
magrathi se Afghanistan and w Pakistan
neglectus w Himalayas
nipalensis c, e Himalayas
idius nc China
szetschuanus wc China
talifuensis s China and ne Myanmar
dauricus se Siberia, ne China, Korea and Tsushima (sw Japan)
pallescens Kamchatka Pen. and Commander Is.
kurilensis n Kuril Is.
fumigatus s Kuril Is., Sakhalin and Japan
mosukei Izu Is. (Japan)
ogawae Yakushima and Tanegashima (Osumi Is., s Japan)
subpallidus ne Iran to s Uzbekistan and nw Afghanistan
tianschanicus ne Afghanistan to mountains of c Asia
borealis Faroe Is.
zetlandicus Shetland Is.
fridariensis Fair I. (s of the Shetland Is.)
hirtensis St. Kilda I. (Outer Hebrides off w Scotland)
hebridensis Outer Hebrides except St. Kilda (off w Scotland)
indigenus Ireland and Britain
troglodytes most of mainland Europe
kabylorum nw Africa, Balearic Is. and s Spain
koenigi Corsica and Sardinia
juniperi ne Libya
cypriotes Cyprus, w, s Turkey to n Israel
hyrcanus Crimean Pen., n Turkey, Caucasus and n, w Iran
taivanus Taiwan
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
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German Zaunkönig
French Troglodyte mignon
Chinese 鹪鹩
Japanese ミソサザイ
Russian Крапивник
Spanish Chochín paleártico
Portuguese carriça-eurasiática
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)