Musician wren

Musician wren
	Subspecies C. a. salvini (left), and C. a. modulator (right), illustration by Keulemans, 1881
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Troglodytidae
Genus:	Cyphorhinus
Species:	C. arada
Binomial name
	Cyphorhinus arada; (Hermann, 1783)
Synonyms
	Cyphorhinus salvini; Cyphorhinus modulator; Leucolepis modulator;

The musician wren or organ wren (Cyphorhinus arada) is a species of wren named for its elaborate song. It is native to the Amazon Rainforest in South America, and west and southwestwards into the Amazonian Andes. In Portuguese it is known as uirapuru or many other variants of this name, all based on the Tupi wirapu 'ru. Especially in Brazil, the musician wren is the subject of several legends and fables, most relating to its loud and beautiful song. One of these tells that when it starts singing all other birds stop their song to hear it. The musician wren is also believed to bring good luck, which leads some people to kill it in order to have it stuffed.^[2] Even though there are no reliable statistics of its numbers, the musician wren, due to its large range and being locally fairly common, is not considered threatened.

References

^ Template:IUCN
^ Taylor, James L. (1958). "Uirapuru". A Portuguese-English Dictionary. Stanford, CA, US: Stanford University Press. p. 628. ISBN 0-8047-0480-5.

External links

Songs - Xeno-canto Foundation
Song in au format - Ministry of the Environment, Brazil

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[1] Template:IUCN

[Dict-2] Taylor, James L. (1958). "Uirapuru". A Portuguese-English Dictionary. Stanford, CA, US: Stanford University Press. p. 628. ISBN 0-8047-0480-5.

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