Buff-breasted Wren

Cantorchilus leucotis (Lafresnaye, 1845)

Buff-breasted Wren, Cantorchilus leucotis, is a bird of Middle America and South America, from Panama through Amazonia. It belongs to the wren family Troglodytidae and was described by Lafresnaye in 1845. Its range covers eastern Panama and much of the Amazon Basin, reaching northern Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, the Guianas and parts of Brazil beyond Amazonia. It lives in low to medium vegetation, especially secondary growth, forest edges and regenerating clearings, and also uses mangroves, shade coffee, gallery forest, river islands and dry scrub. There is marked variation across its range, and the tail is strongly barred.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Troglodytidae — Wrens

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: Panama through Amazonia