Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Jay Pruett, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Melissa McMasters, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Kat B, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Richard Littauer, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 8 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Annika Lindqvist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ochraceous Wren (Troglodytes ochraceus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Andre Knocklein, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Ochraceous Wren sounds like

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

Recorded by Beth Cottam · Song · Providencia Road, San José Province, Costa Rica · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

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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When to see the Ochraceous 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 Ochraceous Wren

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 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

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

About the Ochraceous Wren

The ochraceous wren is a small songbird of the wren family. It is a resident breeding species in Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.

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Easily confused with

Mountain WrenTroglodytes solstitialisThe mountain wren is 10.5 to 11.5 cm (4.1 to 4.5 in) long and has a mean weight of 11.8 g (0.42 oz).

Rufous-browed WrenTroglodytes rufociliatusThe rufous-browed wren is 10 to 11.5 cm (3.9 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 11 g (0.39 oz).

Cozumel WrenTroglodytes beaniThe Cozumel wren is a very small passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae that is endemic to the small island of Cozumel off the eastern coast of Mexico.

Side by side: Ochraceous Wren vs Pacific Wren · Mountain Wren vs Ochraceous Wren · Ochraceous Wren vs White-bellied Wren · Ochraceous Wren vs Rufous-browed Wren

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