#1394 · 🐦 birds

Southern House Wren

🇳🇱 Zuidelijke huiswinterkoning ·Troglodytes musculus

🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © elhoffa · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Juliano Marques · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nicolás Villaseca Merino · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Puán, AR-BA, AR:© Agustín Gabriel Álvarez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Drake Passage:© taopina · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Puntarenas Province, Monteverde, Costa Rica:© Jim Greulich · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Campus Universidad de Costa Rica:© Bruce Coto R · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Paripueira - AL, 57935-000, Brasil:© eduardovieira17 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Acassuso, Buenos Aires, Argentina:© RAP · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The southern house wren ( Troglodytes musculus ) is a very small passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae. It is found from southern Mexico to southern Chile and southern Argentina. The name troglodytes means "hole dweller", and is a reference to the bird's tendency to disappear into crevices when hunting insects or to seek shelter. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the northern house wren ( Troglodytes aedon ).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,011iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
26,011 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Naumann in 1823 (203 years ago).