Northern Nightingale-Wren

Microcerculus philomela (Salvin, 1861)

Northern Nightingale-Wren, Microcerculus philomela, is a passerine wren of Middle America, breeding from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. It lives in lowland tropical forest, especially intact evergreen forest and undisturbed cloud forest, and is found mainly on the Atlantic side of its range, with local records on the Pacific side in Chiapas and Costa Rica. It is a monotypic species and was once treated as the same species as the Southern Nightingale-Wren. Adults are mostly dark brown, with a dark grey throat and breast and a scalloped look from black feather tips.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Troglodytidae — Wrens

Breeding range

Middle America: s Mexico to Costa Rica