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Resident to short-distance migrant. Pacific Wrens are year-round residents along the West Coast from Alaska to central California. They are also resident in some interior western states. Birds that breed in Canada migrate short distances to the south for the winter.

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Wrens(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Troglodytidae)

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