family Troglodytidae

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family Troglodytidae - wrens Troglodytidaebird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsorder Passeriformes, Passeriformes - largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeresjenny wren, wren - any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insectsgenus Troglodytes, Troglodytes - type genus of the TroglodytidaeCistothorus, genus Cistothorus - marsh wrensgenus Salpinctes, Salpinctes - a genus of Troglodytidaegenus Thryothorus, Thryothorus - Carolina wrensCampylorhynchus, genus Campylorhynchus, genus Heleodytes, Heleodytes - alternative classifications for the cactus wrens