Rock Wren
Salpinctes obsoletus
Synopsis: Nests widely in suitable habitat east of the Cascades. Most notable are the many records from the Columbia Basin, and the scattered records from west of the Cascade crest (generally from clearcuts and rock quarries), and from the Siskiyou Mountains.

Habitat Associations:
More strongly associated with rock
outcrops than with any vegetation type.
strongest
Lava/Pumice with Widely Scattered Trees/Shrubs (127578 acres)
Alpine Rock & Snowfield with Widely Scattered Shrubs (62967 acres)
strong
Mountain Mahogany Shrubland (1378 acres)
Sagebrush Steppe (4994865 acres)
Low-Dwarf Sagebrush (432677 acres)
Salt Desert Scrub Shrubland (571910 acres)
Big Sagebrush Shrubland (12269243 acres)
Northeast Canyon Grass & Shrubland (371246 acres)
some
Subalpine Fir-Lodgepole Pine Montane Conifer (411848 acres)
W. Juniper Woodland (3652667 acres)
Northeast Modified Grassland (871224 acres)
Edges of Recently Cutover/Burnt Forest (482877 acres)
lesser
Conifer Woodland on Serpentine Bedrock (17876 acres)
Ponderosa Pine-W. Juniper Woodland (187989 acres)
Manzanita-dominant Shrubland (14271 acres)
Subalpine Grassland (58447 acres)

Relative Detectability: Fairly easy to detect due to persistent singing, and somewhat easy to confirm by noting fledglings with adults.

Challenge: Search additional clearcuts and rocky outcrops in western Oregon for this species, especially in the High Cascades, and in central Klamath County.