![]() The Eurasian wren was formerly considered conspecific with two North American species: the winter wren ( Troglodytes hiemalis) and the Pacific wren ( Troglodytes pacificus). The species is now placed in the genus Troglodytes that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1809. In 1555 the German naturalist Conrad Gessner had used the Latin name Passer troglodyte for the Eurasian wren in his Historiae animalium. The specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek trōglodutēs meaning "cave-dweller". The Eurasian wren was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla troglodytes. ![]() are within the clade currently defined by Troglodytes. The taxonomy of the genus Troglodytes is currently unresolved, as recent molecular studies have suggested that Cistothorus spp. The scientific name is taken from the Greek word "troglodytes" (from τρώγλη troglē "hole", and δῠ́ειν dyein, "creep"), meaning "hole-dweller", and refers to its habit of disappearing into cavities or crevices whilst hunting arthropods or to roost. It is also highly polygynous, an unusual mating system for passerines. It is migratory in only the northern parts of its range. The Eurasian wren occurs in Europe and across the Palearctic – including a belt of Asia from northern Iran and Afghanistan across to Japan. The species was once lumped with Troglodytes hiemalis of eastern North America and Troglodytes pacificus of western North America as the winter wren. ![]() It is russet brown above, paler buff-brown below and has a cream buff supercilium. It has a very short tail which is often held erect, a short neck and a relatively long thin bill. In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren. The Eurasian wren ( Troglodytes troglodytes) or northern wren is a very small insectivorous bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa ( Maghreb).
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