Birds of Costa Rica

    PASSERIFORMES: Troglodytidae (Wrens)  
Genus: Microcerculus (2 species, 4 worldwide)


Southern Nightingale-Wren
Southern Nightingale-Wren (Microcerculus marginatus squamulatus)
Rio Claro Canyon Reserve, Antioquia, 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.

Northern Nightingale-Wren
Northern Nightingale-Wren (Microcerculus philomela)
Bosque Eterno de Los Niños, Alajuela, Costa Rica  
   
Photograph by David Rodríguez Arias     Copyright and usage info



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