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White-breasted Wood Wren

Henicorhina leucosticta

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 14 g
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 1
Photo: datadan · CC BY 4.0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 2
Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez · CC BY 4.0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 3
Photo: Guy Babineau · CC BY 4.0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 4
Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 5
Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 6
Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 7
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon · CC BY 4.0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 8
Photo: Aitor · CC BY 4.0
White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 9
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White-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucosticta), photo 10
Photo: (c) Grete Pasch, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the White-breasted Wood Wren sounds like

Sonogram of the White-breasted Wood Wren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Beth Cottam · Song · Rancho Naturalista, Cartago Province, Costa Rica · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the White-breasted Wood Wren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by radrat · Song · Club de Yate Miraflores-R (near Panama City), Panama, Panamá Province, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the White-breasted Wood Wren: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by radrat · Song · Pipeline road, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

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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When to see the White-breasted Wood 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 White-breasted Wood Wren

Regular range

The map shades 15 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Belize Colombia Panama Mexico Guatemala Ecuador Honduras Nicaragua Peru Suriname Venezuela Guyana Brazil French Guiana

About the White-breasted Wood Wren

The white-breasted wood wren is a small songbird of the wren family. It is a resident breeding species from central Mexico to northeastern Peru and Suriname.

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Easily confused with

Grey-breasted Wood Wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) Grey-breasted Wood WrenHenicorhina leucophrysThe nominate subspecies of grey-breasted wood wren is 10 to 11.5 cm (3.9 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 13.5 to 17.7 g (0.48 to 0.62 oz). Munchique Wood Wren (Henicorhina negreti) Munchique Wood WrenHenicorhina negretiThe 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). Hermit Wood Wren (Henicorhina anachoreta) Hermit Wood WrenHenicorhina anachoretaThe hermit wood wren is approximately 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long.

Side by side: Grey-breasted Wood Wren vs White-breasted Wood Wren · Munchique Wood Wren vs White-breasted Wood Wren

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