''Odontorchilus'' is a small genus of

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bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...

s in the family Troglodytidae. These small grey

wren Wrens are a family, Troglodytidae, of small brown passerine birds. The family includes 96 species and is divided into 19 genera. All species are restricted to the New World except for the Eurasian wren that is widely distributed in the Old Worl ...

s are relatively long-tailed (giving them a superficially

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-like appearance), and, uniquely in the family, they live in the

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and subcanopy of humid forest, with one species associated with forest growing on the east

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slope and the other with the

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Species

* Grey-mantled wren (''Odontorchilus branickii'') * Tooth-billed wren (''Odontorchilus cinereus'')

References

* Schulenberg, T., D. Stotz, D. Lane, J. O' Neill, & T. Parker III. 2007. ''Birds of Peru.'' Christopher Helm. Troglodytidae Taxa named by Charles Wallace Richmond Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Troglodytidae-stub