Wren-like Rushbird

Phleocryptes melanops (Vieillot, 1817)

Wren-like Rushbird Phleocryptes melanops is a bird of South America, breeding in the west and across the Southern Cone. It belongs to the ovenbird family Furnariidae and is the only species in its genus. It lives in freshwater and brackish marshes and along lake margins where emergent plants grow, especially in stands of Scirpus sedges. It is found from sea level to 4,300 m. The species is present in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, with some southern birds moving north in the austral winter.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Furnariidae — Ovenbirds

Breeding range

South America: w and Southern Cone