Moustached Wren

Moustached Wren

Pheugopedius genibarbis

Silhouette: Matt Wilkins · PhyloPic

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Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Chapada dos Guimarães National Park

In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%

45 Verified sightings at Chapada dos Guimarães National Park From 2019 to 2026
1,844 In all 7 parks
June Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Moustached Wren

The moustached wren (Pheugopedius genibarbis) is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. The moustached wren was at one time treated as conspecific with the whiskered wren (Pheugopedius mystaclais). It has four subspecies:

The nominate adult has an olivaceous gray-brown crown and nape, bright chestnut back and rump, and a dull brown tail with narrow blackish bars. It has a white supercilium and eyering, a black stripe through the eye, gray-black cheeks streaked with white, a white moustachial stripe, and a black malar stripe. Its throat and upper chest are white, its lower chest buffy, and its flanks and belly deeper brown. Compared to the adult, the juvenile's crown is browner, its back duller and less deeply chestnut, and it has less well defined facial markings and more diffuse bars on the tail.

P. g. juruanus is larger than the nominate and its underparts are paler. P.... Wikipedia →

Sounds

Begging call0:45

Brazil · 2026

© JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA · XC1141904 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Song0:15

Brazil · 2025

© Joost van Bruggen · XC1050513 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:22

Brazil · 2023

© Ricardo José Mitidieri · XC808570 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Amboró National Park 🇧🇴 Bolivia
~60%
2 Chapada Diamantina National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
~40%
3 Manu National Park 🇵🇪 Peru
~20%
4 Tambopata National Reserve 🇵🇪 Peru
~10%
5 Chapada dos Guimarães National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
~10%
6 Serra dos Órgãos National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
7 Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 São Luís 🇧🇷 Brazil
~20%
2 Belém 🇧🇷 Brazil
~20%
3 Recife 🇧🇷 Brazil
~10%
4 Maceió 🇧🇷 Brazil
~10%
5 Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
6 Goiânia 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
7 Vitória 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
8 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 🇧🇴 Bolivia
<5%
9 Salvador 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
10 Niterói 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Moustached Wren in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Moustached Wren sighting in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, based on 45 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 142nd most-seen of the 273 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Moustached Wren in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park?

June

In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Moustached Wren in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, May and August–November, the lowest months. That is one of Chapada dos Guimarães National Park's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 240 mm in March. February to April have too few records to rate.

What time of day is best to see a Moustached Wren?

Between 8 and 11 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Moustached Wren sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Is Chapada dos Guimarães National Park the best place to see a Moustached Wren?

5th of 7

Of the 7 parks where we can rate Moustached Wren sightings, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Amboró National Park (Bolivia, about 60%), Chapada Diamantina National Park (Brazil, about 40%) and Manu National Park (Peru, about 20%).

Which relatives of the Moustached Wren live in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park?

Same family: Troglodytidae

The closest relatives of the Moustached Wren that you can see in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (family Troglodytidae, Wrens) are Thrush-like Wren (about 40%) and Southern House Wren (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Moustached Wren sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Moustached Wren is recorded against all the birds logged in Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (45 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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