Summary ⁶

The Rock Wren (Salpinctes obsoletus) is a small songbird of the wren family. It is the only species in the genus Salpinctes.

Range description ⁷

Salpinctes obsoletus is a North American species, distributed from western Canada through western U.S.A. to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica. The subspecies exsul, endemic to Mexico's San Benedicto Island, was driven extinct by a volcanic eruption in 1952 (del Hoyo et al. 2005).

Habitat and ecology ⁸

Systems

• Terrestrial

Migration ⁹

Non-Migrant: Yes. At least some populations of this species do not make significant seasonal migrations. Juvenile dispersal is not considered a migration.

Locally Migrant: Yes. At least some populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).

Locally Migrant: Yes. At least some populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.

Breeding populations in northern interior U.S. and southern Canada are migratory.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Jerry Oldenettel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/7457894@N04/3931474376
2. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
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6. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salpinctes_obsoletus
7. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/31250404
8. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/31250406
9. (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28814910

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