Which Woodcreeper? (Ecuador) (1 Viewer)

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KHamblett

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #1

I believe that this is the Streak Headed Woodcreeper, but this one is outfitted with a longer beak than that which is depicted in the Ecuador bird guide. Your help with identifying this one will be appreciated!

Karen

 

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jocateme

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #2

Hi Karen,
I think it could be Lineated Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes albolineatus). Wouldn't Streak-headed be out of range?

 

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Gambia14

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #3

Hi Karen,

I have Streak-Headed Woodcreeper listed as far south as Northern Peru (sorry Joao). However, the closest I am to identifying it is Straight-billed Woodcreeper - then I looked at the bill. Sorry

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Oct 28, 2007

• #4

Location in Ecuador would be helpful in indentification. As I see it, it is either Streak-crowned or Montane, the former found in the western lowlands and the latter above 1500 metres. The crown looks spotted rather than streaked so that would lead me to believe it to be a Montane.

 

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KHamblett

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #5

It does indeed look like the Montane - even though the eyebrow doesn't seem as prominent as the one in the guide book. I posted a couple more shots of this guy that shows his head/cap better. But, wow, that beak is long even for a Montane....

 

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Gordon Hodgson

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #6

What was the location in Ecuador?

 

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KHamblett

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #7

Bellavista Lodge area in Ecuador's Tandayapa Valley.

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Oct 28, 2007

• #8

Montane Woodcreeper's are common in the area.

 

Gordon Hodgson

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #9

KHamblett said:

Bellavista Lodge area in Ecuador's Tandayapa Valley.

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The range maps for the two species under consideration (page 387 of the Ridgely field guide) would certainly seem to favor the higher-elevation Montane Woodcreeper (over the lower-elevation Streak-headed Woodcreeper) for the Bellavista Lodge area. We were there in June of this year and did a lot of birding in that area. Though we were always hoping for a new woodcreeper species whenever there was a little movement on a tree trunk or limb, we were frequently "disappointed" to find that it was just another Montane!

The fact that the streaking on the underparts of the bird shows up clearly in your photographs also suggests that it is a Montane, whose streaking is described in the field guide as "crisper" than that of the Streak-headed.

 

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KHamblett

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• Oct 28, 2007

• #10

Thanks for the responses .... Montane it is ......Thanks for pointing out that the pattern on the crown of the head differs between the Montane and Streak headed woodcreeper and that the streaking is sharper in the Montane than that of the Streak headed. Great distinguishers between those two similar species.