The White-headed Wren is about 18 cm long. Records come from Panama and Colombia, where it searches foliage for small invertebrates in forest edges and secondary growth.
It is about 18 cm long.
It is diurnal and uses evergreen-forest edges and secondary forest. It gleans invertebrates from foliage.
It moves in pairs or small groups and forages around epiphytes growing on trees. It often uses the middle and upper forest layers.
The head, neck and most of the underside are white, contrasting with dark brown to blackish upperparts and wings. The undertail coverts are barred.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.