Riverside Wren - BirdForum Opus

Photo by ecodave
Carate, Costa Rica

Cantorchilus semibadius

Thryothorus semibadius

Identification

Photo by katastrofa
Matapalo, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, January 2017

13–14 cm (5-5½ in)

• Black upper lores and upper supercilium
• White lower lores and supercilium
• Grey chin
• Black ear-coverts
• Black throat sides

Distribution

Central America: found in the Pacific lowlands of south-western Costa Rica and extreme western Panama.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species¹.

Was formerly placed in genus Thryothorus like all other species of the genus Cantorchilus.

Habitat

Tropical seaside jungle. Dense vegetation, especially riverine. Marshy woodland edges.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of insects such as beetles, spiders, earwigs and cockroach eggs.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Jan 2018)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Riverside Wren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Riverside_Wren

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