• Skip to Content
  • Skip to Main Navigation
  • Skip to Local Navigation
  • Skip to Search
  • Skip to Sitemap
  • Skip to Footer
Help develop a Bird ID tool!

Marsh Wren

Cistothorus palustris ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: TROGLODYTIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

  • Similar Species
  • Related Species
  • Go to:

A common and noisy inhabitant of cattail marshes, the Marsh Wren sings all day and throughout the night.

Get BNA: the definitive resource for North American birds
Donate to Bird Cams

Calls

  • Songs, calls
    Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a gurgling, rattling trill.

Get BNA: the definitive resource for North American birds
Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos