Strong-billed Woodcreeper

Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus (Lesson, RP, 1840)

Strong-billed Woodcreeper, Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus, is a bird of Middle America and South America, ranging from southern Mexico through Amazonia. It belongs to the ovenbird family Furnariidae and is found in forested country across a broad span of countries from Mexico and Central America into the northern and central Andes and the Amazon Basin. It is one of the largest ovenbirds and the heaviest woodcreeper. The sexes look alike. Its bill is long, stout and slightly curved, which is the feature that gives the bird its name.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Furnariidae — Ovenbirds

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: s Mexico through Amazonia