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What the Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper sounds like
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The sharp-tailed streamcreeper is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 20 to 38 g (0.71 to 1.3 oz). It is a rather dark furnariid with a long and slightly decurved bill. The sexes' plumages are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a narrow ragged white supercilium, blackish lores, dull brownish ear coverts with rufescent shafts, and a whitish malar area. Their crown is dark brown with faint spots on the forehead. Their back is rich reddish brown that blends to a blackish rump and uppertail coverts. Voice: The sharp-tailed streamcreeper's song appears to vary little among its disjunct populations. The song is "a series of dry notes that gradually accelerate and ascend, then stay on same pitch, then descend abruptly". Its calls have been written as "sea-sick", "seesee-sik", "tsiterit", and "tsitit". Its alarm call is "chet-chet-chet".
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When to see the Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
The sharp-tailed streamcreeper is a passerine bird of South America in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. Alternate names include streamside Lochmias, sharp-tailed creeper, and simply streamcreeper. It is found in Panama and every mainland South American country except Chile, French Guiana, and Suriname.
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Easily confused with
White-eyed Foliage-gleanerAutomolus leucophthalmusThe white-eyed foliage-gleaner is 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long and weighs 25 to 38 g (0.88 to 1.3 oz).
Tawny-winged WoodcreeperDendrocincla anabatinaThe tawny-winged woodcreeper is 17 to 19 cm (6.7 to 7.5 in) long.
Rufous-fronted ThornbirdPhacellodomus rufifronsThe rufous-fronted thornbird is 16 to 17 cm (6.3 to 6.7 in) long and weighs about 18 to 31 g (0.63 to 1.1 oz).
Side by side: Rufous-fronted Thornbird vs Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper · Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper vs White-eyed Foliage-gleaner · Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper vs Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
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