About Henicorhina leucosticta (Cabanis, 1847)
The adult white-breasted wood wren (Henicorhina leucosticta Cabanis, 1847) is 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long and weighs 16 grams (0.56 oz). It has chestnut brown upperparts with a darker crown, pale supercilia, and black-and-white streaked sides of the head and neck. Its underparts are white, turning buff on the lower belly. The wings and very short tail are barred with black. Young individuals have duller upperparts and grey underparts. H. leucosticta breeds in lowlands and foothills up to 1,850 metres (6,070 ft) above sea level, in tropical wet forest and adjacent tall second growth. It builds a neat roofed nest on the ground, or occasionally very low in undergrowth, where it is concealed by dense vegetation. The female alone incubates the eggs, which hatch after about two weeks, and the young fledge around another two weeks after hatching. This species may build a "dormitory nest" for individual birds or family groups, which is typically higher than the breeding nest, up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) off the ground. The white-breasted wood wren forages actively in low vegetation or on the ground in pairs or family groups, and feeds mainly on insects and other invertebrates.
