Carolina Wrens are typically a bird of the southeastern and eastern United States, with a normal range that's marked on most range maps as ending a few hundred miles south of South Dakota. However, we do get occasional sightings, and might expect more in the coming years as climate change makes a South Dakota winter not quite the obstacle it once was. The photos below are of a South Dakota bird, from Good Earth State Park in 2020.
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