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Ochraceous Wren vs Pacific Wren

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus)

Ochraceous Wren

Troglodytes ochraceus

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The adult ochraceous wren is 9.5 to 10 cm (3.7 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 8 to 10 g (0.28 to 0.35 oz). The nominate subspecies sensu stricto has a rich medium brown crown and back with a rufous cast to the rump. The tail is brown with blackish bars. It has a bold yellowish buff supercilium that extends to the nape. Its chin, throat, and upper chest are buffy brown, its lower breast and upper belly buffy white, and its flanks and lower belly darker buffy brown. T. o. ligea, when treated separately, is duller than the nominate and has a heavier bill. T. o. Voice: The ochraceous wren's song is "a rather subdued medley of varied liquid trills and high, thin slurred whistles" and it calls "a rolling, thin high-pitched 'peeer' or 'peeew' and low, weak 'churr'."

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Sonogram of the Ochraceous Wren
Recorded by Beth Cottam · Song · Providencia Road, San José Province, Costa Rica · CC0
Photo: desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Pacific Wren (Troglodytes pacificus)

Pacific Wren

Troglodytes pacificus

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Rufous brown above, richly colored below, barred with darker brown and dusky, even on wings and tail. The bill is dark brown, the legs pale brown. Young birds are less distinctly barred.

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Sonogram of the Pacific Wren
Recorded by Nate Peterson · Song · Black Fox Campground, Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, United States · CC0
Photo: Andrew Still · CC BY 4.0

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