Birds of Costa Rica - Microcerculus


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 (Microcerculus philomela) Bosque Eterno de Los Niños, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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