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Stripe-throated Wren | Cantorchilus leucopogon
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The Stripe-throated Wren is a small brown wren of humid lowland forest in eastern Panama, with a black-and-white streaked throat and unstreaked buffy-brown underparts. It keeps to vine tangles and dense foliage at mid-levels, often in pairs or with mixed flocks.
Voice
Short, clear whistled phrases, each repeated a few times. The call is a dry rattle.
Recording: Patricio Mena Valenzuela — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · converted to mono · xeno-canto
Identification
11–12 cm. Upperparts brown, tail with narrow black bars. Narrow white supercilium; cheeks and throat streaked black and white. Breast and belly plain buffy to greyish brown. Bill dark. Sexes alike.
Confusion species
Stripe-breasted Wren Cantorchilus thoracicus (further west) also has a densely streaked breast. Buff-breasted Wren Cantorchilus leucotis has an unstreaked white throat and a prominent white supercilium, and lives more in low scrub and near water.
Habitat
Humid lowland and foothill forest, especially forest edges, clearings and mature secondary forest. It forages at mid-levels up to the lower canopy in dense foliage and vine tangles for insects.
Where the bird is most at home, classified by the vegetation units of Mexico and Central America.
Range and movements
Eastern Panama, mainly in Darién. Outside the guide area in western Colombia and north-western Ecuador.
- Resident
- dark = core range, pale = thinly spread
How and when to look
Usually found by its song from forest edges and vine tangles; it often travels with mixed flocks of small insectivores.
Conservation status
Not threatened. Its range within the guide area is small, but beyond it the species occurs over a larger area.
Scientific name
Cantorchilus leucopogon | (Salvadori & Festa, 1899)
Salvadori & Festa described the species in 1899 as Thryophilus leucopogon; because it was later moved to another genus, the author and year stand in brackets. The genus Cantorchilus was introduced in 2006 by Mann, Barker, Graves, Dingess-Mann & Slater. Cantorchilus combines Latin cantus 'song' with Greek orkhilos 'wren': 'song wren'. leucopogon is Greek, from leukos 'white' and pōgōn 'beard', after the white, streaked throat. The specimen the first description was based on came from Río Peripa, Pichincha, Ecuador.