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Photo by Gary Clark.
Location: La Selva Biological Research Station, near Sarapiqui, Costa Rica.

Photo by Gary Clark.
Location: La Selva Biological Research Station, near Sarapiqui, Costa Rica.

Thryothorus thoracicus

[edit] Identification

Length 13 cm (5 in). Rufous back, barred tail and wings, strong black eyestripe contrasting with white supercilliary. The only wren in its range with a heavily streaked (black and white) throat and beast.

[edit] Distribution

Caribbean Slope in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Common in moist lowland forests to 1000m

[edit] Behaviour

Usually in foraging pairs in the understory of mature wet forests.

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