- Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
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.
Distribution
South America: found from southern Mexico to Guyana, northwestern Peru, northern Brazil, and on Trinidad.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Seven subspecies are recognized[1]:
- L. s. guerrerensis:
- W Mexico (Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and sw Oaxaca)
- L. s. compressus:
- S Mexico (Veracruz and Chiapas) to w Panama
- L. s. lineaticeps:
- Cent. and e Panama to n Colombia and w Venezuela
- L. s. littoralis:
- Tropical nw Colombia to Guyana and adj. n Brazil; Trinidad
- L. s. uaireni:
- Extreme se Venezuela (along Rio Uairén in se Bolívar)
- L. s. esmeraldae:
- Tropical sw Colombia (Nariño) and w Ecuador (s to El Oro)
- L. s. souleyetii:
- Tropical sw Ecuador and nw Peru (south to Lambayeque)
Habitat
Damp light woodland, plantations, gardens, and clearings with trees.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists mostly of spiders and insects; it creeps up trunks and extracts its prey from the bark or mosses.
Breeding
The construct a leaf-lined nest in a tree cavity, or sometimes an old woodpecker hole, and lays 2 white eggs.
Vocalisation
Call: a sharp rolled djeer
Song: a whistled piiiiiiiiir piiiiiiiiir piiiiiiiiir.
References
- 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/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Streak-headed Woodcreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Streak-headed_Woodcreeper
