Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Hugo Bernal Hernández, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Helio Lourencini, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Juan Felipe Restrepo Mesa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus), photo 7 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) scaup, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Louis Imbeau, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Straight-billed Woodcreeper sounds like

Sonogram of the Straight-billed Woodcreeper: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Orellana: Laguna Añangu ('Napo Wildlife Center'), s-bank Río Napo, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Sucumbíos: 'La Selva Jungle Lodge', n bank Río Napo, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The straight-billed woodcreeper is 18 to 22 cm (7.1 to 8.7 in) long. Males weigh 34 to 42 g (1.2 to 1.5 oz), mainland females 33 to 45 g (1.2 to 1.6 oz), and a female from Trinidad weighed 51 g (1.8 oz). It is a slim, medium-sized woodcreeper. Its bill is distinctive, with a straight culmen on the maxilla and a mandible that curves upward. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies D. p. picus have an indistinct pale supercilium and eyering, a dusky stripe behind the eye, and brown ear coverts with wide buffy white streaks. Their forehead is whitish. Voice: The straight-billed woodcreeper sings mostly at dawn and dusk, starting early and ending late, but it also sings intermittently during the day. In Amazonia it sings "a rapid series of c.

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When to see the Straight-billed Woodcreeper

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 Straight-billed Woodcreeper

Regular range

The map shades 11 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Brazil Venezuela Peru Panama Bolivia Ecuador Guyana Trinidad & Tobago French Guiana Suriname

About the Straight-billed Woodcreeper

The straight-billed woodcreeper is a species of bird in the subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Panama, Trinidad, and in every mainland South American country except Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

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Easily confused with

Zimmer's WoodcreeperDendroplex kieneriiZimmer's woodcreeper is 21 to 24 cm (8.3 to 9.4 in) long and weighs 40 to 50 g (1.4 to 1.8 oz).

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