Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper

Drymornis bridgesii (Eyton, 1849)

Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper, Drymornis bridgesii, is a passerine of the Furnariidae family that breeds in south-eastern Bolivia and western Paraguay, then south through Argentina and Uruguay. It is the only species in its genus. The bird is a large woodcreeper with a long, downcurved bill and a relatively short tail. Adults show the same plumage in both sexes, and the young are streaked more faintly than grown birds. It lives in woodland, scrub, thorn forest and savanna, and also uses abandoned pasture and broken woodland in farmed country.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Furnariidae — Ovenbirds

Breeding range

South America: se Bolivia and w Paraguay to c Argentina and w Uruguay