Bar-winged wood wren

Bar-winged wood wren
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Troglodytidae
Genus: Henicorhina
Species: H. leucoptera
Binomial name
Henicorhina leucoptera
Fitzpatrick, Terborgh & Willard, 1977

The bar-winged wood wren (Henicorhina leucoptera) is a species of bird in the Troglodytidae family. It is found locally in humid Andean forest in southern Ecuador and northern Peru. It is threatened by habitat loss. As suggested by its name, it has a single distinctive white wing-bar.

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