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Striped Woodcreeper
A species of Thick-billed Streaked Woodcreepers Scientific name : Xiphorhynchus obsoletus Genus : Thick-billed Streaked Woodcreepers
Striped Woodcreeper, A species of Thick-billed Streaked Woodcreepers
Botanical name: Xiphorhynchus obsoletus
Genus: Thick-billed Streaked Woodcreepers
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Description
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Description
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The striped woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus obsoletus) is a species of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily (Dendrocolaptinae). It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
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Size
21 cm
Feeding Habits
Striped Woodcreeper, mainly insectivorous, primarily consumes small insects, with a preference for beetles and ants, and occasionally feeds on hemipterans, cicadas, cockroaches, caterpillars, and spiders. Forages alone or in pairs, hitching up trunks and branches or creeping along their undersides. Striped Woodcreeper employs gleaning, pecking, and probing, but also performs aerial sallies, potentially an adaptation for its flooded forest habitat. It occasionally forages with mixed-species flocks but is largely independent, with some interspecific territoriality over resources.
Habitat
The habitat of striped Woodcreeper is mainly found in evergreen forests with a proclivity for areas near water sources. They predominantly inhabit floodplain forests, including both várzea and igapó ecosystems, as well as large river islands, wooded swamps, and the margins of rivers and lakes. In some regions, they also occupy forested areas on sandy soils and terra firme forests. Additionally, striped Woodcreeper can be located at the edges of Amazonian lowlands in gallery forests that border the cerrado territory. They show a preference for the interior of mature forests at upland sites and are less commonly found in second growth, forest edges, or near clearings with scattered trees.
Dite type
Insectivorous
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Scientific Classification
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