Bewick's
Wren Range Map
The Bewick's Wren breeds from southwestern
British Columbia, southern Wyoming, eastern
Nebraska, southeastern Minnesota, southern
Ontario, and southeastern New York south to
Mexico, central Texas, the northern portions of
the Gulf States, central Georgia and central
South Carolina. A year-round resident in the
West; it winters from the northern limits of the
breeding range, southern Kansas, the lower Ohio
Valley, and North Carolina to Mexico, the Gulf
Coast, and central Florida. The Bewick's Wren is
generally associated with dense, brushy habitats
such as thickets of mesquite, oaks, and cacti;
chaparral; mixtures of pine, junipers, and oaks;
dense growths of alder, cottonwood, and willow.
In the Southwest, it occurs in mountain canyons
up to 6,000 feet in elevation.
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