Straight-billed woodcreeper
Straight-billed woodcreeper | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Dendrocolaptidae |
Genus: | Dendroplex |
Species: | D. picus
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Binomial name | |
Dendroplex picus (Gmelin, 1788)
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Synonyms | |
Xiphorhynchus picus |
The straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus) is a species of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily (Dendrocolaptinae). Its genus, Dendroplex, was recently confirmed to be distinct from Xiphorhynchus. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
The straight-billed woodcreeper's range is in central and north South America, east of the Andes cordillera, and encompasses the entire Amazon Basin and the Caatinga. The species is found in Panama of Central America, and only the four countries, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, of southernmost South America are excluded from the South American range.
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Dendroplex picus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22703095A138227917. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22703095A138227917.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
External links[]
- Straight-billed woodcreeper videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Associação Mãe-da-lua Straight-billed woodcreeper Fotos, sounds, notes
- Stamps (for Colombia)
- Straight-billed woodcreeper photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Dendroplex
- Birds of Panama
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of Venezuela
- Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
- Birds of the Guianas
- Birds of the Amazon Basin
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds described in 1788
- Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
- Furnariidae stubs