Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

WoodlandDomed nestSmall · 24 g

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Millie Basden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Jay Pruett, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Daniel S. Katz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Roger A. Morales-Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Roger A. Morales-Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Jay Pruett, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Roger A. Morales-Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Canebrake Wren (Cantorchilus zeledoni), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Roger A. Morales-Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The canebrake wren is 14 cm (5.5 in) long. Adults' crowns are brown and their upperparts are brownish gray merging to olivaceous gray on the rump. Their tail is olivaceous brown with well defined darker bars. They have a white supercilium, a gray-brown stripe through the eye, and cheeks mottled with gray and off-white. The throat is off white, the chest gray, and the lower belly gray-buff. Juveniles have duller underparts and less well defined facial markings. Voice: The members of a canebrake wren pair "sing in complex duet" .

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When to see the Canebrake Wren

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Canebrake Wren

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Panama Nicaragua

Recorded as a rare visitor in Germany.

About the Canebrake Wren

The canebrake wren is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

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Easily confused with

Isthmian WrenCantorchilus elutusThe isthmian wren is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long.

Grey WrenCantorchilus griseusThe grey wren is 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long.

Stripe-throated WrenCantorchilus leucopogonThe stripe-throated wren is 12 cm (4.7 in) long.

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