Birds of Venezuela

    PASSERIFORMES: Troglodytidae (Wrens)  
Genus: Campylorhynchus (3 species, 15 worldwide)

Genus Campylorhynchus are large wrens, often with barring, that generally are less secretive and thus easier to see.


Bicolored Wren
Bicolored Wren (Campylorhynchus griseus)
Hato Aurora, Casanare, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Large, vocal and conspicuous. Moves in noisy groups. Probably expanding range with deforestation.

Stripe-backed Wren
Stripe-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus nuchalis pardus)
Mompox, Magdalena, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Slightly smaller than the similar Band-backed Wren, but just as noisy.
Additional photo.

Band-backed Wren
Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus imparilis)
Rio Claro Canyon Reserve, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

At nest.


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