Birds of Brazil

    PASSERIFORMES: Troglodytidae (Wrens)  
Genus: Microcerculus (3 species, 4 worldwide)


Wing-banded Wren
Wing-banded Wren (Microcerculus bambla)
Venezuela  
   
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com   © All Rights Reserved.


Southern Nightingale-Wren
Southern Nightingale-Wren (Microcerculus marginatus occidentalis)
San Cipriano, Valle de Cauca, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Once called the Scaly-breasted Wren, although some races have few scales. The unique song has loud peeps a few seconds apart, at many different seemingly random frequencies.
Side view.

Flutist Wren
Flutist Wren (Microcerculus ustulatus)
Venezuela  
   
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com   © All Rights Reserved.



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