Sedge wren Cistothorus platensis

Identification Tips:

• Length: 3.75 inches
• Short, thin bill
• Indistinct supercilium
• Brown upperparts with pale streaks on back and crown
• Buffy breast and flanks
• Wings and tail barred with black
• Short tail frequently held upright
• Sexes similar
• Found in wet fields and marshes

Similar species:

Other wrens with indistinct superciliums are House, Winter and Rock Wrens. Winter Wren is more reddish-brown above, darker below and has a shorter tail. House Wren lacks white streaking on the crown and back and is less buffy on the underparts. Rock Wren is larger with a contrast between the gray back and brown rump and has buffy tips to the tail.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.