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Ruddy Woodcreeper

Dendrocincla homochroa

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCavity nestSmall · 39 g
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 1
Photo: Juan Rodolfo Lillo Lobos · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 2
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 3
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 4
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 5
Photo: William Stephens · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 6
Photo: Juan Rodolfo Lillo Lobos · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 7
Photo: William Stephens · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 8
Photo: unknown · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 9
Photo: Birdenheck · CC BY 4.0
Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), photo 10
Photo: Melissa McMasters from Memphis, TN, United States · CC BY 2.0

What the Ruddy Woodcreeper sounds like

Sonogram of the Ruddy Woodcreeper: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Andrea Martinez · Uncertain · Chuluc, Chemax Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The ruddy woodcreeper is 17.5 to 20.5 cm (6.9 to 8.1 in) long. Males weigh 34 to 45 g (1.2 to 1.6 oz) and females 27 to 39 g (0.95 to 1.4 oz). The species is a medium-sized member of its genus, with a straight bill, a short tail, and a large head with a ruffled nape. The sexes have the same plumage. The nominate subspecies has dark rufous to chestnut-brown upperparts with a brighter reddish crown. Its wings, uppertail coverts, and tail are rufous chestnut. The tips of its primaries are dusky. It has grayish lores and eyering and a cinnamon-buff to tawny-ochraceous throat. Voice: The ruddy woodcreeper seldom vocalizes. It does make a "rattle, churring or slightly slurred" song and a variety of calls including "churring, a squeaky 'quink' or 'peach', and a nasal, descending 'deeeeah' or 'tee tee eu' ".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Ruddy Woodcreeper

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Ruddy Woodcreeper

Regular range

The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Belize Mexico Guatemala Panama Nicaragua Colombia Honduras El Salvador Venezuela

About the Ruddy Woodcreeper

The ruddy woodcreeper is a passerine bird in subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found from southern Mexico to northern Colombia and extreme northern Venezuela.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Tawny-winged Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla anabatina) Tawny-winged WoodcreeperDendrocincla anabatinaThe tawny-winged woodcreeper is 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in) long. Tyrannine Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla tyrannina) Tyrannine WoodcreeperDendrocincla tyranninaThe tyrannine woodcreeper is rather larger and heavier than most others of its genus. White-chinned Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla merula) White-chinned WoodcreeperDendrocincla merulaThe white-chinned woodcreeper is a medium-sized member of its genus with a shortish straight bill.

Side by side: Plain-brown Woodcreeper vs Ruddy Woodcreeper · Ruddy Woodcreeper vs Tawny-winged Woodcreeper · Ruddy Woodcreeper vs Tyrannine Woodcreeper

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