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Lepidocolaptes affinis

Photo by SeanKP
Photo taken: Costa Rica.

[edit] Identification

21.5 cm. Spotted crown, olive brown upperparts with fine streaking on the upper back, a chestnut rump, wings and tail, and heavily streaked olive-brown underparts. The bill is slender and decurved. Young birds are duller with less distinct streaking and crown spots. The call is a squeaky deeik and the song is a trill and rattle deeeeeeah hihihihihi.

[edit] Similar Species

Spot-crowned Woodcreeper is very similar to Streak-headed Woodcreeper, but is larger, has a spotted crown, and is the only woodcreeper found at high altitudes.

[edit] Distribution

Central Mexico to northern Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

Three subspecies are recognized:^[1]

• L.a. lignicida - northeast Mexico
• L.a. affinis - southern Mexico to northern Nicaragua
• L.a. neglectus - Costa Rica and western Panama

[edit] Habitat

Mountains from 1000 m to the timberline in mossy forest and adjacent semi-open woodland and clearings.

[edit] Behaviour

• Breeding: It builds a leaf-lined nest in a tree cavity or old woodpecker or barbet hole, and lays 2 white eggs.
• Diet: includes spiders and insects; it creeps up trunks and extracting its prey from the bark or mosses. It will join mixed-species feeding flocks.

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

• List of references

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