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Grey-breasted Wood Wren

Henicorhina leucophrys · Family Troglodytidae

Henicorhina leucophrys

Family Troglodytidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Troglodytidae
GBIF occurrence records
323,569
Countries and territories with records
13
Grey-breasted Wood Wren
Cephas · Henicorhina leucophrys Santa Elena.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cephas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Oliver Komar · Henicorhina_leucophrys_-_Grey-breasted_Wood_Wren_XC544046.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oliver Komar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 323,569 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (41.2%), Costa Rica (20.9%), Ecuador (15.8%), Guatemala (5.1%) and Peru (5%); together they account for 88% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Henicorhina leucophrys combines the genus name Henicorhina with the species epithet leucophrys. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Henicorhina; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Henicorhina leucosticta, Henicorhina negreti and Henicorhina anachoreta.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 92 species of the family Troglodytidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thryothorus ludovicianus. Its record count is 74.3% of the family average (435,441). The family Troglodytidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Troglodytidae

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