Bay Wren
Cantorchilus nigricapillus (Sclater, PL, 1860)
Troglodytidae — Wrens
Bay Wren, Cantorchilus nigricapillus, is a wren of Middle America and north-western South America, ranging from Nicaragua to Ecuador. It is a member of the Troglodytidae family and was described by Sclater in 1860. Across most of its range it is closely associated with water, though in Nicaragua it uses drier places. It lives in dense, fairly low growth, including thickets beside streams, overgrown clearings, roadsides and the understorey of secondary forest, and it can also be found inside forest where the undergrowth is thick enough.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Troglodytidae — Wrens
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: Nicaragua to Ecuador
