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Lepidocolaptes souleyetii

Photo by mmdnje
Location: Cerro Blanco, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Identification

19 cm. Olive brown upperparts, fine streaking on the crown, nape and upper back, chestnut rump, wings and tail, and heavily streaked olive-brown underparts. The 2.5 cm long bill is slender and decurved. Young birds are duller with less distinct streaking.

The call is a sharp rolled djeer and the song is a whistled piiiiiiiiir piiiiiiiiir piiiiiiiiir.

Distribution

Southern Mexico, northwestern Peru, northern Brazil, Guyana, and on Trinidad.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Damp light woodland, plantations, gardens, and clearings with trees.

Behaviour

The diet includes spiders and insects; it creeps up trunks and extracts its prey from the bark or mosses.

It builds a leaf-lined nest in a tree cavity, or sometimes an old woodpecker hole, and lays 2 white eggs.

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