Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Stanley Jones
El 44 Reserva Natural de Tiempo Libre, Capilla del Monte, Córdoba Province, Argentina, October 2019

Drymornis bridgesii

Identification

29–35 cm (11½-13¾ in)

• White supercilium
• Short tail

Distribution

South America: From southern Bolivia to central Argentina, Uruguay, western Paraguay and southwest Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Farmland, woodland and scrub.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of spiders and centipedes; they also eat some plant material. They feed both on trunks and branches of trees and on the ground (especially if the ground is lose).

References

1. 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/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Scimitar-billed_Woodcreeper

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