Banded Wren - BirdForum Opus

Photo by ana maria
Guanacaste, Costa Rica, January 2011

Thryophilus pleurostictus

Thryothorus pleurostictus

Identification

14–15 cm (5½-6 in)

• Rufous-brown upperparts
• Strong white supercilium
• Brown stripe through the eye
• White cheeks with black streaks
• White underparts
• Heavy black barring on the flanks and lower belly
• Wings and tail barred black
  

Immature birds are duller and underparts are lightly mottled with dusky brown.

Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 7 subspecies^[1]:

• T. p. nisorius:

• Western Mexico (Morelos, Puebla and Michoacan)

• T. p. oaxacae:

• South-western Mexico (coastal central Guerrero to Oaxaca)

• T. p. acaciarum:

• Southern Mexico (Chiapas)

• T. p. oblitus:

• Pacific lowlands of eastern Chiapas to Guatemala and western El Salvador

• T. p. pleurostictus:

• Guatemala (Gualán region of Zacapa)

• T. p. lateralis:

• Lowlands of El Salvador and western Honduras

• T. p. ravus:

• Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua to north-western Costa Rica

Was formerly placed in genus Thryothorus like all other species of the genus Thryophilus.

Habitat

Lowlands and foothills up to 800 m in forest clearings; scrubby woods or more open woodland.

Behaviour

Breeding

They construct a flask-shaped nest in the fork of a shrub or thorn tree. It has a long downward sloping entrance leading to a chamber lined with fine grasses, often near to a wasp nest. The clutch consists of 3-4 unspotted white or pale greenish-blue eggs which are incubated by the female for approximately two weeks; the young fledge two weeks later.

Diet

The diet consists of invertebrates, including spiders; there is letter other information available.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Nov 2017)
4. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Banded Wren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Banded_Wren

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