Thryomanes bewickii leucophrys (Anthony, 1895:52)
San Clemente Bewick's wren
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Thryothorus leucophrys Anthony, 1895:52 [basionym]
Conservation Status
Extinct (del Hoyo et al., 2005; BirdLife International, 2021; NatureServe, 2026a,b)
Last record: 1940's?
Distribution & Habitat
San Clemente Island, California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Anthony, A. W. (1895). A new species of Thryothorus from the Pacific coast. The Auk 12(1): 51-52.
Other references:
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). (1957). The AOU check-list of North American birds, 5th ed. Baltimore, MD: Port City Press, Inc. 691 pp.
BirdLife International. (2021). Thryomanes bewickii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T22711377A139737836. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22711377A139737836.en. Accessed on 30 September 2026.
Breninger, George F. (1904). San Clemente Island and Its Birds. The Auk 21(2): 218-223.
del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Christie, D. (2005). Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
Hume, Julian P. (2017). Extinct Birds (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury Natural History.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 195]
Linton, C. B. (1908). Notes from San Clemente Island. The Condor 10(2): 82-86.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
NatureServe. (2026a). Thryomanes bewickii leucophrys: San Clemente Bewick's Wren. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 30 September 2026]
NatureServe. (2026b). Thryomanes bewickii: Bewick's Wren. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 30 September 2026]