Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestDomed nestSmall · 35 g

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 1 — Photo: datadan · CC BY 4.0

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 2 — Photo: datadan · CC BY 4.0

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 3 — Photo: DiegoH · CC BY 4.0

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 4 — Photo: Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY 4.0

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 5 — Photo: Ramón García · CC BY 4.0

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 6 — Photo: Alexis López Hernández · CC BY 4.0

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Javier Hernandez, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Ryan F. Mandelbaum, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Band-backed Wren sounds like

Sonogram of the Band-backed Wren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by JUAN ANTONIO ALONSO DE JUAN · Call · Vereda La Máquina, Pacho, Cundinamarca, Colombia · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by JUAN ANTONIO ALONSO DE JUAN · Song · Vereda La Máquina, Pacho, Cundinamarca, Colombia · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pichincha: Río Guaycuyacu, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

This large wren breeds in lowlands and foothills from sea level up to 1700 m altitude in thinned forest or open woodland, scrub, second growth and groves around houses. It mainly occurs on the Caribbean side of the Central American mountain ranges. Its large spherical nest has a wide side entrance and is constructed 2 – 30 m high in a tree or shrub, often hidden amidst bromeliads. The female alone incubates the three to five unmarked or lightly brown-spotted white eggs for about two weeks to hatching, and the young fledge in about the same length of time again.

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When to see the Band-backed Wren

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Band-backed Wren

Regular range

The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Guatemala Mexico Costa Rica Colombia Belize Nicaragua Honduras Ecuador Panama El Salvador

About the Band-backed Wren

The band-backed wren is a small songbird of the wren family.

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Easily confused with

Thrush-like WrenCampylorhynchus turdinusThe thrush-like wren is a South American species of bird in the family Troglodytidae, the wrens.

Bicolored WrenCampylorhynchus griseusThe bicolored wren is the largest South American wren and second in size only to the giant wren overall in the family.

Fasciated WrenCampylorhynchus fasciatusThe fasciated wren is approximately 19 cm (7.5 in) long; one female weighed 24.9 g (0.88 oz).

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