Alternative name: Southern Barred Woodcreeper
- Dendrocolaptes certhia
Identification
26–28·5 cm (10-11 in)
- Brown overall plumage
- Long tail
- Long curved bill
Distribution
South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
Taxonomy
Formerly lumped with the Northern Barred Woodcreeper under the name Barred Woodcreeper.
Subspecies
There are 8 subspecies[1]
- D. c. radiolatus:
- D. c. certhia:
- D. c. juruanus:
- D. c. concolor:
- D. c. ridgwayi:
- Eastern Amazonian Brazil, between the rios Tapajós and Xingu
- D. c. medius:
- South-eastern Amazonia south of Amazon (Rio Tocantins to north-western Maranhão)
- D. c. polyzonus:
- Northern Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz)
- D. c. retentus:
- Eastern Amazonian Brazil, south of the Amazon, between the Xingu and Tocantins Rivers
Habitat
Humid lowland forests, including flooded forests and terra firma forests.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of insects and invertebrates such as ants, grasshoppers and cockroaches.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Marantz, C.A., Aleixo, A., Bevier, L.R. & Patten, M.A. (2020). Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes certhia). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/56614 on 3 April 2020)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Amazonian_Barred_Woodcreeper
External Links
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