wrenthrush

wrenthrush

bird
 (Zeledonia coronata), bird of the rain forests of Costa Rica and Panama. It resembles the wren in size (11 cm, or 4.5 inches), in being brownish and short-tailed, and in its habit of skulking in undergrowth. It is thrushlike in beak and leg structure. The wrenthrush has been classified as a chat-thrush (q.v.; family Turdidae, order Passeriformes) but is now considered to belong nearer the woodwarbler (wood warbler) (q.v.) group (Parulidae). Some authors prefer to separate it, provisionally, as the family Zeledoniidae.

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