Woodcreeper
White -throated Woodcreeper ( Xiphocolaptes albicollis )
The Woodcreeper ( Dendrocolaptidae ) are a family in the order of perching birds ( Passeriformes ).
Dissemination
Widespread they are in the subtropical and tropical forests in Central and South America ( from Mexico to Argentina) and live mostly solitary. Sometimes they join together to form larger groups.
Features
The beak shape varies from species to species, it can be long and curved forward and downward, as in the sickle tree hacker or short and straight as in the Rotschwanzkletterer. They have sharp claws and strong legs and feet. In the brown plumage color to males and females are similar. The wings and the tail feathers often a rusty brown color. With the help of their sharp claws and stiff tail feathers, which they use as a prop, they may well run along the trees. They feed on insects, which they find in the folds of the bark. Their nests they create in tree cavities or abandoned woodpecker holes.
Genera and species
- Genus Dendrocincla Tyrants Woodcreeper ( Dendrocincla tyrannina )
- Strong -billed Woodcreeper ( Dendrocincla macrorhyncha )
- Lohschwingen poison frog ( Dendrocincla anabatina )
- Grey-headed Woodcreeper ( Dendrocincla fuliginosa )
- White-chinned Woodcreeper ( Dendrocincla merula)
- Cap Woodcreeper ( Dendrocincla homochroa )
- Long-tailed Woodcreeper ( Deconychura longicauda )
- Kehlfleck poison frog ( Deconychura stictolaema )
- Olivbaumsteiger ( Sittasomus griseicapillus )
- Beef Picker ( Glyphorhynchus spirurus )
- Sword -billed Woodcreeper ( Drymornis bridgesii )
- Long -billed Woodcreeper ( Nasica longirostris )
- Zimtkehl poison frog ( Dendrexetastes rufigula )
- Antinode Woodcreeper ( Hylexetastes stresemanni )
- Red-billed Woodcreeper ( Hylexetastes perrotii )
- White -throated Woodcreeper ( Xiphocolaptes albicollis )
- Bahia Woodcreeper ( Xiphocolaptes villa novae )
- Bart Woodcreeper ( Xiphocolaptes falcirostris )
- Gray -billed Woodcreeper ( Xiphocolaptes franciscanus )
- Giant Woodcreeper ( Xiphocolaptes major)
- Strichelkopf poison frog ( Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus )
- Binding Woodcreeper ( Dendrocolaptes Xuanmu )
- Borbabaumsteiger ( Dendrocolaptes concolor)
- Hoffmann Woodcreeper ( Dendrocolaptes hoffmannsi )
- Blue -billed Woodcreeper ( Dendrocolaptes Picumnus )
- Flat -billed Woodcreeper ( Dendrocolaptes platyrostris )
- Geradschnabel poison frog ( Xiphorhynchus picus )
- Amazon Woodcreeper ( Xiphorhynchus necopinus )
- Strip Baumsteiger ( Xiphorhynchus obsoletus )
- Eyes Woodcreeper ( Xiphorhynchus ocellatus )
- Spixbaumsteiger ( Xiphorhynchus spixii )
- Jewelry Baumsteiger ( Xiphorhynchus elegans)
- Drops forehead poison frog ( Xiphorhynchus guttatus )
- Rust -throated Woodcreeper ( Xiphorhynchus pardalotus )
- Stripe coat poison frog ( Xiphorhynchus eytoni )
- Ivoorsnavelmuisbaumsteiger ( Xiphorhynchus flavigaster )
- Tamaulipasbaumsteiger ( Xiphorhynchus striatigularis )
- Tears Woodcreeper ( Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus )
- Star spots poison frog ( Xiphorhynchus erythropygius )
- Breastplate poison frog ( Xiphorhynchus triangularis )
- Stained Woodcreeper ( Lepidocolaptes leucogaster )
- Souleyetbaumsteiger ( Lepidocolaptes souleyetii )
- Narrow -billed Woodcreeper ( Lepidocolaptes angustirostris )
- Spot vertex poison frog ( Lepidocolaptes affinis )
- Stain stomach poison frog ( Lepidocolaptes squamatus )
- Slender -billed Woodcreeper ( Lepidocolaptes fuscus )
- Layardbaumsteiger ( Lepidocolaptes albolineatus )
- Eye strips poison frog ( Campylorhamphus pucherani )
- Rotsensenschnabel ( Campylorhamphus trochilirostri )
- Brown Sense Schnabel ( Campylorhamphus pusillus)
- Mourning Sense Schnabel ( Campylorhamphus falcularius )
- Dark Sense Schnabel ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides )