Buff-throated Woodcreeper - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Marcelo Padua
Transpantaneira, Brazil

Xiphorhynchus guttatus

Inlcudes: Lafresnaye's Woodcreeper; Dusky-billed Woodcreeper

Identification

27-28 cm

• Rufous upperparts
• Olive brown underparts, wings and tail
• Streaked buff head, neck, mantle and chest
• Long, slightly decurved, and hooked bill
  

Bill

• Dark grey upper mandible
• Pale greyish-horn lower

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Guianas Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

There are 8 subspecies:

• X. g. polystictus:

• Eastern Colombia to the Guianas and extreme northern Brazil

• X. g. connectens:

• North-western Amazonian Brazil north of the Amazon (Manaus to Amapá)

• X. g. guttatus:

• Coastal eastern Brazil (Paraíba to Espírito Santo)
  

Lafresnaye's Woodcreeper group

• X. g. guttatoides:

• Tropical western Amazonian basin

• X. g. dorbignyanus:

• Tropical north-eastern Bolivia to east-central Brazil
  

Dusky-billed Woodcreeper group

• X. g. eytoni:

• South Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon (Rio Madeira to Maranhão)

• X. g. vicinalis:

• Brazil south of the Amazon (Rio Madeira to Rio Tapajós)

• X. g. gracilirostris:

• North-eastern Brazil (Serra do Baturité, Ceará)

Some authorities split the Lafresnaye's Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus guttatoides and/or Dusky-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus eytoni from this species.

Habitat

Humid forest and woodland.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes ants, insects and spiders.

Breeding

It builds a bark-lined nest in a tree hole or hollow stump. The clutch consists of 2 white eggs.

Vocalisation

Call: - a loud chev-re chev-re.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Buff-throated Woodcreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Buff-throated_Woodcreeper

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