Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Campylorhynchus nuchalis Cabanis
We have recently learned from Dr. R. H. Wiley that he observed a fledged young cowbird (M. bonariensis venezuelensis) cared for and repeatedly fed by 2 stripe-backed wrens (C. nuchalis brevipennis) in Venezuela. This wren is an addition to the shiny cowbird's host catalog.
RUFOUS-BREASTED WREN
- bibliographic citation
- Friedmann, Herbert, Kiff, Lloyd F., and Rothstein, Stephen I. 1977. "A further contribution of knowledge of the host relations of the parasitic cowbirds." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-75. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.235
