Thrush Like Wren

Copyright: monacoeye • Brazil • August 2011 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Thrush Like Wren
Latin: Cantorchilus longirostris
Other: Garrinchão-de-bico-grande (Br) • Soterrey Mirlo (Es)
Family: Troglodytidae • Wrens
Range: Amazonia, Pantanal, Bahia - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
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There is a tree you can climb with a rickety set of stairs on the approach road to Curicaca Lodge, off the Transpantaneira in the Pantanal. While standing on the upper platform, the Thrush-like Wren above alighted in the tree.

I also saw Thrush-like Wrens around the Lodge. It wasn’t initially obvious to me they were of the wren family from their large size, relaxed behaviour and plain colouring.

In the Pantanal subspecies pictured, Cantorchilus longirostris unicolor, barring is very faint on the chest but diagnostic on the flanks and under the tail. It has a light supercilium.

Further north in the Amazon, the Thrush-like Wren is more heavily spotted below. Thrush-like Wrens are medium-sized birds, as a large as a thrush.

Also seen briefly (but not photographed) at Rio Azul Lodge in Para, Brazil.






Above, a Thrush-like Wren, viewed from a tree-platform, in the Pantanal.

Below, a Thrush-like Wren could be seen most mornings in the open areas around Curicaca Lodge in August. Diagnostic barring on flanks and under tail.