Woodcreeper
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
or woodhewer, common names for woodpeckerlike birds of tropical forest and brush, constituting about 50 species in the family Dendrocolaptidae.
Ruddy Woodcreeper Dendrocincla homochroa
Described by: Sclater, P. L. (1859)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Striped Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus obsoletus)
Brazil
The Striped Woodcreeper is distributed throughout most of the Amazonian Basin. It is found in humid forest mainly, though not exclusively, in seasonally flooded várzea and igapó forest.
Woodcreeper, Northern Barred- Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae Found: northern South America
Photographed by: Steve Garvie
Woodcreeper, Planalto Dendrocolaptes platyrostris Found: South America
Photograhed by: Dario Sanches in Sao Paulo, Brazil ...
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes affinis)
3/28/04 - Amistad National Park, Chiriqui. Woodcreepers are a little like overgrown Brown Creepers and, true to their name, are almost always seen creeping up wood.
Buff-throated Woodcreeper - Xiphorhynchus guttatus. 3+ spotted moving in a mixed flock.
Pale-legged Hornero - Furnarius leucopus. A couple walking and vocalizing along the creek.
broadbills, woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, ...
Furnariidae: ovenbirds and woodcreepers
Thamnophilidae: antbirds
Formicariidae: antpittas, antthrushes and typical tapaculos. Possibly polyphyletic.
Conopophagidae: gnateaters and gnatpittas
N.N.: atypical "tapaculos" (crescent-chests and allies) ...
Family Dendrocolaptidae (woodcreepers)
Family Formicariidae (ant-thrushes and antpittas)
Family Furnariidae (ovenbirds) ...
The tanagers, antbirds, woodcreepers and hummingbirds, for example, are such massive families that it can be pretty daunting trying to get to grips with the sheer number of these birds in any one country.
 See also: Creeper, Oriole, Robin, Tanager, Swallow
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