Nava's Wren - BirdForum Opus

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adult
Photo by Peter R. Bono
El Ocote, west of Tuxtla Guttierez, Chiapas, Mexico, July 2009

Hylorchilus navai

Identification

16 cm. Long blackish bill, orange on lower mandible. Grey lores. Rich brown upperparts, barred lightly black on wings. White throat and upper breast, grey on lower breast. Faint, dusky scalloping on chest. Dark sooty-brown on sides and flanks. Dusky grey-brown undertail-coverts.

Distribution

Mexico.

Habitat

Limestone outcrops and primary lowland evergreen forest.

Behaviour

It takes invertebrates from the lichen-covered surface of the limestone and in the cracks and crevices of boulders.

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