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CERRILLOS HILLS HISTORIC PARK

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Bewick's Wren - confirmed presence

Thyromanes bewickii

Size: 5.5" - Wren

Crown, upper parts gray-brown; pale gray below; white eyebrow; faintly striped cheeks; tail long, rounded, outer tail feathers white.

Song complex, melodious.


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Cactus Wren - not present

Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus

Not found in New Mexico above 6,000 feet elevation. The Arizona state bird.


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Canyon Wren - rare, but possible

Catherpes mexicanus


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House Wren - confirmed presence, Fall

Troglodytes aedon


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Rock Wren - confirmed presence

Salpinctes obsoletus

Size: 6" - Wren

Gray-brown above, speckled white; white below, sides washed buffy; eyebrow thin, buffy; bobs head.


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ISOLATED EVENTS

LS reports:

- Carolina Wren, recorded November 30, 1998. (rare in New Mexico)
- Winter Wren.

IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS

Sighted at the Leonora Curtin Natural History Area (a lush, well-watered preserve 3 miles north of Cerro Bonanza, near La Ciénega)

Rock Wren, Bewick Wren - ALL YEAR
House Wren, Marsh Wren - SUMMER

Sighted at the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group -- 7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)

Rock, Bewick's, House - as of '04.




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