White-breasted wood wren
White-breasted wood wren | |
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In Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Brazil. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Troglodytidae |
Genus: | Henicorhina |
Species: | H. leucosticta
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Binomial name | |
Henicorhina leucosticta (Cabanis, 1847)
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The white-breasted wood wren (Henicorhina leucosticta) is a small songbird of the wren family. It is a resident breeding species from central Mexico to northeastern Peru and Suriname.
Description
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.
Call
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.[2]
As with some other wrens, pairs often sing in
Habitat
H. leucosticta breeds in
The white-breasted wood wren forages actively in low vegetation or on the ground in pairs in family groups. It mainly eats insects and other invertebrates
References
- . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- National Public Radio. Birds and Beethoven., Mexico, [Baptista] heard the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony coming from a white-breasted wood wren.
In the rainforest of Chiapas
- ^ Meyer de Schauensee, Rodolphe & William H. Phelps (1978) A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela, Princeton University Press.
General references:
- Stiles, Gary and Alexander Skutch. 1990. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica ISBN 0-8014-9600-4
Further reading
- Skutch, Alexander F. (1960). "Lowland wood wren" (PDF). Life Histories of Central American Birds II. Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 34. Berkeley, California: Cooper Ornithological Society. pp. 138–145.
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