Alternative name: Bar-vented Wren
- Thryothorus sinaloa
Identification
Upperside reddish-brown with dark barring, underside mostly pale with strongly barred undertail coverts. Face with strong white supercilium, dark lore and eye-stripe, pale sides (indistinct stripes) and black-white barred neck sides
Distribution
Central America: endemic to western Mexico from southern Sonora to western Oaxaca (including the state of Sinaloa). Occurs as a vagrant in the US (southern Arizona).
Taxonomy
Subspecies[1]
- T. s. cinereus:
- North-western Mexico (south-eastern Sonora, south-western Chihuahua and northern Sinaloa)
- T. s. sinaloa:
- Western Mexico (central Sinaloa to western Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima)
- T. s. russeus:
- South-western Mexico (central Guerrero to extreme south-western Oaxaca)
A proposal has been put forward to place this species in genus Thryophilus.
Habitat
Forests and mangrove forests. Ornamental plantings at edge of second growth tropical forest
Behaviour
Song is varied and rich
References
- Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- BF Member observations
- 51st supplement to the AOU checklist of North American birds
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Sinaloa Wren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sinaloa_Wren