Munchique Wood Wren vs White-breasted Wood Wren

Munchique Wood Wren

Henicorhina negreti

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The Munchique wood wren is 10.8 to 11.7 cm (4.3 to 4.6 in) long and weighs 15.2 to 16.7 g (0.54 to 0.59 oz). The adult has a dark brown crown with blackish marks, a thin white supercilium, a dull black line from the lores through the eye, and blackish cheeks with whitish mottling. Its upperparts are a slightly brighter brown than the crown and its tail is brown with black bars. The throat is white, streaked with black at its lower edge. The breast is medium gray, the belly a lighter gray, and the flanks and vent area brown. The abdomen and flanks have dark gray to black bars. Voice: The Munchique wood wren's song is "phrases of 6–12 pure notes... typical song containing more than ten repeated phrases". Its calls are "mostly churrs, similar to those of congeners."

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Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum · CC BY 4.0

White-breasted Wood Wren

Henicorhina leucosticta

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The adult white-breasted wood wren is 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long and weighs 16 grams (0.56 oz). It has chestnut brown upperparts with a darker crown, pale supercilia, and black-and-white streaked sides of the head and neck. The underparts are white becoming buff on the lower belly. The wings and very short tail are barred with black. Young birds have duller upperparts and grey underparts. Voice: The call of this species is a sharp cheek or explosive tuck, and the song is cheer oweet oweet cheery weather; ornithologist and bioacoustics expert Luis Baptista of the California Academy of Sciences compared it to the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. As with some other wrens, pairs often sing in duets.

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Recorded by Beth Cottam · Song · Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica · CC0

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