Plain wren
| Plain wren | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Cantorchilus |
| Species: | C. modestus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cantorchilus modestus (Cabanis, 1861) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Thryothorus modestus | |
The plain wren (Cantorchilus modestus) is a species of bird in the Troglodytidae family. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
The subspecies C. m. zeledoni of eastern Nicaragua, eastern Costa Rica and north-west Panama is sometimes considered to be a separate species, canebrake wren.
Description
The plain wren is a small, drab wren measuring 13 cm (5.1 in) in length.[2] It has a brown back, buffy flanks, white underparts and throat and wide white supercilium. The eye is red.
It has a loud 4-syllable song.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Thryothorus modestus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Garrigues, Richard; Dean, Robert (2007). The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cantorchilus modestus. |
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Wikispecies has information related to: Cantorchilus modestus |
- Plain Wren videos, photos, and sounds at the Internet Bird Collection
- Plain Wren photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Plain Wren species account at NeotropicalBirds (Cornell University)