Ceara Woodcreeper

The Ceara woodcreeper is a small, slim member of its genus, with a disproportionatly large head and a longish, slim, slightly decurved bill. The species is 15 to 18.5 cm (5.9 to 7.3 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly dusky face with a thin creamy to yellowish buff supercilium and often a pale eye ring. Their crown and nape are blackish brown with small yellowish buff to cinnamon spots on the crown. The spots become streaks on the nape and sides of the neck and weakly continue onto the upper back. Their back and wing coverts are olive-brown to reddish brown. Voice: The Ceara woodcreeper's song is similar to that of the lesser woodcreeper (which see here: Lesser woodcreeper#Vocalization), but it has fewer and sharper introductory notes and an ascending trill. Their calls are thought to be alike: a "very high, sharp 'fieet fieet' " and "doubled 'peep, peesp' and single 'speel' or 'wik' ".