Henicorhina leucosticta
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The white-breasted wood wren (Henicorhina leucosticta) is a small songbird of the wren family. It is a resident breeding species from central Mexico to northeastern Peru and Suriname. The adult white-breasted wood wren is 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long and weighs 16 grams (0.56 oz). It has chestnut brown upperparts with a darker crown, pale supercilia, and black-and-white streaked sides of the head and neck. The underparts are white becoming buff on the lower belly. The wings and very short tail are barred with black. Young birds have duller upperparts and grey underparts.
The call of this species is a sharp cheek or explosive tuck, and the song is cheer oweet oweet cheery weather; ornithologist and bioacoustics expert Luis Baptista of the California Academy of Sciences compared it to the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
As with some other wrens, pairs often sing in duets. H. leucosticta breeds in lowlands and foothills up to 1,850 metres (6,070 ft) above sea level in tropical wet forest and adjacent tall second growth. Its neat roofed nest is constructed on the ground or occasionally very low in undergrowth, and is concealed by dense... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White-breasted Wood-Wren sighting in Piedras Blancas National Park on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 299th most-seen of the 344 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White-breasted Wood-Wren in Piedras Blancas National Park on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-breasted Wood-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.
37th of 42
Of the 42 parks where we can rate White-breasted Wood-Wren sightings, Piedras Blancas National Park ranks 37th at under 5%. The best odds are in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (Belize, about 60%), Tenorio Volcano National Park (Costa Rica, about 40%) and Pico Bonito National Park (Honduras, about 40%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Troglodytidae
The closest relatives of the White-breasted Wood-Wren that you can see in Piedras Blancas National Park (family Troglodytidae, Wrens) are Riverside Wren (about 50%), Southern House Wren (about 40%) and Cabanis's Wren (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-breasted Wood-Wren is recorded against all the birds logged in Piedras Blancas National Park (17 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.
