| White-breasted wood wren | |
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| InPresidente Figueiredo,Amazonas,Brazil. | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Troglodytidae |
| Genus: | Henicorhina |
| Species: | H. leucosticta |
| Binomial name | |
| Henicorhina leucosticta (Cabanis, 1847) | |
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Thewhite-breasted wood wren (Henicorhina leucosticta) is a smallsongbird of thewren family. It is a resident breeding species from central Mexico to northeastern Peru andSuriname.
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, palesupercilia, 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.
Thecall of this species is a sharpcheek or explosivetuck, and the song ischeer oweet oweet cheery weather;ornithologist andbioacoustics expertLuis Baptista of theCalifornia Academy of Sciences compared it to the opening bars ofBeethoven's Fifth Symphony.[2]
As with some other wrens, pairs often sing induets.[3]
H. leucosticta breeds inlowlands andfoothills up to 1,850 metres (6,070 ft)above sea level intropical wet forest and adjacent tallsecond growth. Its neat roofed nest is constructed on the ground or occasionally very low inundergrowth, and is concealed by dense vegetation. The eggs are incubated by the female alone for about two weeks to hatching, and the youngfledge in about the same length of time again. This species may build a “dormitory nest” for individuals or family groups, which is typically higher, than the breeding nest, up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) off the ground.
The white-breasted wood wren forages actively in low vegetation or on the ground in pairs in family groups. It mainly eatsinsects and otherinvertebrates
In the rainforest ofChiapas, Mexico, [Baptista] heard the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony coming from a white-breasted wood wren.
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