Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
The Sumichrast's Wren is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.
of Sumichrast's wren; they were classified in 2001 as Vulnerable and Near Threatened, respectively. Although no full species of wren have been lost, several island races have become extinct in recent times. Thus two races of Bewick's wren, formerly found on islands off the Californias, are gone, as is the Martinique race of the southern house wren. Two other West Indian races of the same species, on St. More