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Spotted Woodcreeper
Xiphorhynchus erythropygius (Sclater, PL, 1860)
Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
Spotted Woodcreeper, Xiphorhynchus erythropygius, is a passerine of the Furnariidae family found from southern Mexico through Middle America to south-west Ecuador. It is a resident bird of humid forest, especially evergreen and montane woodland, cloudforest, and mossy, epiphyte-rich stands. It also uses forest edges, older secondary growth, tree plantations and isolated trees near intact forest. A medium-sized woodcreeper, it has a long, slightly curved bill and the sexes look alike. The nominate form shows buff spotting and streaking on the head and upperparts, a rufous-chestnut rump and tail, and pale underparts marked with large buff teardrops.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae — Ovenbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: s Mexico to sw Ecuador
