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Mountain Wren
Troglodytes solstitialis Sclater, PL, 1859
Troglodytidae — Wrens
Mountain Wren, Troglodytes solstitialis, is a wren of humid montane and cloud forest in South America, breeding from Colombia to northern Argentina. It is a bird of the Andes, including forest edges up to the tree line, and it also turns up in bamboo thickets. The species was described by Sclater in 1859. Its range is split among several subspecies across Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and north-western Argentina. In Argentina it can occur as low as 700 m, while elsewhere it is mostly found between 1,700 and 3,500 m.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Troglodytidae — Wrens
- Breeding range
- South America: Colombia to n Argentina
