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Glyphorynchus spirurus
Photo by Stanley Jones
Cartago Province, Costa Rica, February, 2014
Photo © by BirdsPeru
Allpahuayo - Mishana Reserve, Iquitos, Peru, 28 October 2006

Identification

15cm. Smallest woodcreeper. Short, wedge-shaped black bill, light stripe through eye, light streaks and spots on head, tan-buffy throat, light spots and streaks on brown chest.

Distribution

Central America from Mexico through Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 13 subspecies[1]:

  • G. s. pectoralis:
  • G. s. pallidulus:
  • East Panama and adjacent north-western Colombia (northern Chocó)
  • G. s. subrufescens:
  • Pacific coast of south-eastern Panama to westerb Colombia and western Ecuador
  • G. s. integratus:
  • G. s. rufigularis:
  • Tropical eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, north-eastern Ecuador and north-western Brazil
  • G. s. amacurensis:
  • North East Venezuela (Delta Amacuro)
  • G. s. spirurus:
  • North East Venezuela, the Guianas and adjacent northern Brazil
  • G. s. coronobscurus:
  • Southern Venezuela (Cerro de la Neblina in south-western Amazonas)
  • G. s. castelnaudii:
  • Tropical eastern Peru and western Amazonian Brazil
  • G. s. albigularis:
  • South East Peru (Puno) to northern Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba)
  • G. s. inornatus:
  • Southern Amazonian Brazil (Rio Madeira to Tapajós and southern Mato Grosso)
  • G. s. paraensis :
  • South East Amazonian Brazil south of Amazon (River Tapajos to northern Maranhão)
  • G. s. cuneatus:
  • Coastal eastern Brazil (northern Bahia to northern Espírito Santo)

Habitat

Lowland and foothill rainforests and semi-open woodland.

Behaviour

Diet

It creeps up trunks to find small spiders and insects, extracting its prey from the bark. Gleans from bark surface, scrapes insects from moss, and hammers shallowly into bark. Usually in pairs and often accompanies mixed-species understory flocks.

Breeding

It builds a cup nest in a narrow tree cavity and 2 white eggs are laid. Time of breeding season varies regionally.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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External Links

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