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The straight-billed earthcreeper 16 to 19 cm (6.3 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 28 to 41 g (0.99 to 1.4 oz). It is a medium-sized earthcreeper whose bill is long and only very slightly decurved. The sexes are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies O. r. ruficaudus have a dull brownish face with some paler inclusions, a narrow whitish supercilium, a black stripe through the eye, and whitish cheeks. In the north of their range their crown is brown with slight darker mottling, their back and rump rufescent brown, and their uppertail coverts dark rufescent. Voice: The straight-billed earthcreeper's song is a loud series of notes that first rises in pitch and then slowly descends and fades away. Its call is "a sharp 'kweep' or 'wheet' ".
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When to see the Straight-billed Earthcreeper
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Straight-billed Earthcreeper
The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Straight-billed Earthcreeper
The straight-billed earthcreeper is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Crag ChiliaOchetorhynchus melanurusThe crag chilia is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 31 to 40 g (1.1 to 1.4 oz).
Band-tailed EarthcreeperOchetorhynchus phoenicurusThe band-tailed earthcreeper is 16 to 17 cm (6.3 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 28 to 34 g (0.99 to 1.2 oz).
Rock EarthcreeperOchetorhynchus andaecolaThe rock earthcreeper is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 28 to 34 g (0.99 to 1.2 oz).
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