[order] PASSERIFORMES | [family] Troglodytidae | [latin] Henicorhina leucosticta | [UK] White-breasted Wood-Wren | [FR] Troglodyte a poitrine blanche | [DE] Wald-Zaunkonig | [ES] Ratona Gallineta | [NL] Boswinterkoning
Subspecies
| Genus | Species | subspecies | Breeding Range | Breeding Range 2 | Non Breeding Range |
Physical charateristics
The adult White-breasted Wood-Wren is 10 cm long and weighs 16 g. 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.
Listen to the sound of White-breasted Wood-Wren
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Range
Latin America : Mexico to Peru and North Brazil
Habitat
It lives in pairs, flying frequently to the ground to catch insects in tangled lianas on fallen trees.
Reproduction
Its neat roofed nest is constructed on the ground or occasionally very low in undergrowth, and is concealed by dense vegetation. The eggs are incubated by the female alone for about two weeks to hatching, and the young fledge 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 3m off the ground. Clutc hsie is two eggs.
Feeding habits
It lives in pairs, flying frequently to the ground to catch insects in tangled lianas on fallen trees. 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
Conservation
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is very large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Migration
Sedentary throughout range.
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