The Whiskered Wren is recorded in foothills and subtropical areas from Venezuela to western Ecuador. It has rufous upperparts, a striped black-and-white face, and pale gray underparts, and it keeps to thickets at forest edges.
The sexes are similar. The upperparts are rufous and the underparts pale gray, with black-and-white facial stripes and black bars on the tail.
It skulks in thickets and tangles at forest edges, usually in pairs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.