Species profile
Plain Wren
Cantorchilus modestus
Quick answer
southern Mexico (Oaxaca) south on the Pacific slope to northwestern Costa Rica; locally on the Caribbean slope from southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Honduras
- Scientific name
- Cantorchilus modestus
- Family
- Troglodytidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Cantorchilus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Troglodytidae
- Antioquia Wren (Thryophilus sernai)
- Apolinar's Wren (Cistothorus apolinari)
- Band-backed Wren (Campylorhynchus zonatus)
- Banded Wren (Thryophilus pleurostictus)
- Bar-winged Wood-wren (Henicorhina leucoptera)
- Bay Wren (Cantorchilus nigricapillus)
- Bewick's Wren (spilurus Group) (Thryomanes bewickii)
- Bicolored Wren (Campylorhynchus griseus)