Southern House Wren
Troglodytes musculus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyTroglodytidae (Wrens)
- GenusTroglodytes (Troglodytes Wrens)
- SpeciesTroglodytes musculus (Southern House Wren)
The southern house wren (Troglodytes musculus) is a very small passerine bird in the wren family Troglodytidae. It is found from southern Mexico to southern Chile and southern Argentina. The name troglodytes means "hole dweller", and is a reference to the bird's tendency to disappear into crevices when hunting insects or to seek shelter. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the northern house wren (Troglodytes aedon). Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Fawn-breasted Wren
Cantorchilus guarayanus
Thrush-like Wren
Campylorhynchus turdinus
Moustached Wren
Pheugopedius genibarbis
Tooth-billed Wren
Odontorchilus cinereus
Great Kiskadee
Pitangus sulphuratus
Silver-beaked Tanager
Ramphocelus carbo
Rusty-margined Flycatcher
Myiozetetes cayanensis
Plain-brown Woodcreeper
Dendrocincla fuliginosa
Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper
Dendrocolaptes certhia
Chestnut-tailed Antbird
Myrmeciza hemimelaena
Great Antshrike
Taraba major
Southern Rough-winged Swallow
Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Southern House Wren at Noel Kempff Mercado National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there