Cyphorhinus arada
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The musician wren or organ wren (Cyphorhinus arada) is a species of wren named for its elaborate song. It is native to the Amazon rainforest in South America, from the lowlands into the foothills of the Andes. At one time the musician wren and the song wren (Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus) were considered conspecific. They, and possibly chestnut-breasted wren (C. thoracicus), form a superspecies.
The musician wren has the six recognized subspecies listed below. There are vocal and plumage differences among them, and one publication has proposed splitting all six into individual species. The six subspecies are: The adult of the nominate subspecies has a rufous forehead and forecrown that darkens to chesnut brown to the rear. It has a narrow pale buff supercilium with narrower black borders, a chestnut brown stripe behind the eye, and orange-brown cheeks. It has a broad... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 2 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 3 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 5 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 6 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Musician Wren sighting in Tambopata National Reserve on a given day, based on 222 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 199th most-seen of the 550 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.
May–August and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Musician Wren in Tambopata National Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in September–October and December–April, the lowest months. Those are among Tambopata National Reserve's driest months, with about 130 mm of rain a month against 420 mm in February.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Musician Wren sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Musician Wren sightings, Tambopata National Reserve ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname, about 30%).
Same family: Troglodytidae
The closest relatives of the Musician Wren that you can see in Tambopata National Reserve (family Troglodytidae, Wrens) are Thrush-like Wren (about 20%), Scaly-breasted Wren (about 10%) and Moustached Wren (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Musician Wren is recorded against all the birds logged in Tambopata National Reserve (222 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.
