Cantorchilus modestus
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Cabanis's wren (Cantorchilus modestus) is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Cabanis's wren, with what are now the canebrake wren (C. zeledoni) and the isthmian wren (C. elutus), were called the plain wren. The three were split from each other in 2016 on the basis of a 2015 publication that described their different vocalizations and genetic divergence. Cabanis's wren is monotypic according to the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy. However, BirdLife International (BLI) retains C. modestus as "plain wren" with elutus as a subspecies of it rather than as a full species.
Cabanis's wren is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long. Two males weighed 17.8 and 19.1 g (0.63 and 0.67 oz) and two females 16.0 and 16.6 g (0.56 and 0.59 oz). Adults have a dark gray-brown crown, a rufous-brown back, an orange-rufous rump, and a rufescent brown tail with narrow darker bars. They have a white supercilium, a gray-brown stripe behind the eye, and cheeks mottled gray-brown and gray-white. Their throat is white, the chest... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 3 | Tegucigalpa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 4 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 5 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 6 | San Pedro Sula | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 7 | Managua | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Cabanis's Wren sighting in Tegucigalpa on a given day, based on 198 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 35th most-seen of the 142 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–March and June–September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Cabanis's Wren in Tegucigalpa on a given day, against about 10% in April–May and October–January, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cabanis's 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.
3rd of 7
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Cabanis's Wren sightings, Tegucigalpa ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in San José (Costa Rica, about 40%) and Guatemala City (Guatemala, about 30%).
Same family: Troglodytidae
The closest relatives of the Cabanis's Wren that you can see in Tegucigalpa (family Troglodytidae, Wrens) are Rufous-backed Wren (about 70%) and Southern House Wren (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cabanis's Wren is recorded against all the birds logged in Tegucigalpa (198 verified sightings), 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.
