Troglodytes aedon guadeloupensis (Cory, 1886)
Guadeloupe wren, Guadaloupe house wren
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Troglodytes martinicensis guadeloupensis (Cory, 1886); Thryothorus guadeloupensis Cory, 1886 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 29 May 1973 (Barlow, 1978)
Sadly one of the species which was rediscovered and then lost again; this time presumably for good.
Distribution
Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Other references:
Barlow, J. C. (1978). Another colony of the Guadeloupe House Wren. Wilson Bulletin 90(4): 635-637.
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. [pp. 195-196]
Kroodsma, D. and Brewer, D. (2005). Family Troglodytidae (Wrens). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D.A. Christie eds). Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
Levesque, A. and Mathurin, A. (2008). Guadeloupe. In Important Bird Areas in the Caribbean (D.C. Wege and A. Anadon-Irizarry eds). BirdLife International, Cambridge.
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)]
Rendall, Drew. (2026). Song patterns support species status for some, but possibly not all, island populations of House Wren (Troglodytes spp.) in the Lesser Antilles. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.15.699782