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Also known as Southern Barred Woodcreeper

Photo by Momo.
Lake Sandoval, Peru, January 2004

Dendrocolaptes certhia

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil

[edit] Taxonomy

Formerly lumped with the Northern Barred Woodcreeper under the name Barred Woodcreeper.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• D. c. radiolatus:

Western Amazonia from south-eastern Colombia to north-eastern Peru and north-western Brazil

• D. c. certhia:

• Extreme eastern Colombia to the Guianas and northern Brazil

• D. c. juruanus:

• South-western Amazonia from eastern Peru and western Brazil to northern Bolivia

• D. c. concolor:

• Southern Amazonian Brazil south of Amazon to Mato Grosso and north-eastern Bolivia

• 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)

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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