Southern Mexico: confined to very limited area in south-eastern Veracruz and north-western Chiapas and, very marginally, north-eastern Oaxaca.
 
Population
Estimated population is 2,500 - 9,999 (2010) and decreasing.
Status VU
Habitat destructuion and degradation through settlement and cattle-ranching following road-building is the main threat.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
A thin nasal 'iihn' in a steady series or pairs.
Nava's Wren (Hylorchilus navai) [XC772738]
by Sue Riffe from La Esmeralda, Santa Mar\u00eda Chimalapa, Oaxaca, Mexico (song)
Nava's Wren (Hylorchilus navai) [XC336039]
by Al\u00e1n Palacios from Reserva de la Biosfera Selva el Ocote,Chiapas, Mexico (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Hylorchilus sumichrasti (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Sumichrast's Wren (Hylorchilus sumichrasti) and Nava's Wren (Hylorchilus navai) following AOU (1998).
Originally described as a subspecies of Sumichrast's Wren (Hylorchilus sumichrasti), but more recent studies of vocalizations indicate that the two are distinct species.