''Odontorchilus'' is a small genus of South American

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

s in the family Troglodytidae. These small grey

wren Wrens are a family of brown passerine birds in the predominantly New World family Troglodytidae. The family includes 88 species divided into 19 genera. Only the Eurasian wren occurs in the Old World, where, in Anglophone regions, it is commonly ...

s are relatively long-tailed (giving them a superficially gnatcatcher-like appearance), and, uniquely in the family, they live in the canopy and subcanopy of humid forest, with one species associated with forest growing on the east Andean 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