Spot-crowned Woodcreeper

Spot-crowned Woodcreeper

Taxobox
name = Spot-crowned Woodcreeper


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Furnariidae
genus = "Lepidocolaptes"
species = "L. affinis"
binomial = "Lepidocolaptes affinis"
binomial_authority = (Lafresnaye, 1839)The Spot-crowned Woodcreeper ("Lepidocolaptes affinis"), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from central Mexico in the east, the Sierra Madre Orientals, to northern Panama.

This woodcreeper is found in mountains from 1000 m to the timberline in mossy, epiphyte-laden forest and adjacent semi-open woodland and clearings. It builds a leaf-lined nest 0.6 to 8 m up in a tree cavity or old woodpecker or barbet hole, and lays two white eggs.

The Spot-crowned Woodcreeper is typically 21.5 cm long, and weighs 35 g. It has a spotted crown, olive brown upperparts with fine streaking on the upper back, a chestnut rump, wings and tail, and heavily streaked olive-brown underparts. The bill is slender and decurved. Young birds are duller with less distinct streaking and crown spots.

Spot-crowned Woodcreeper is very similar to Streak-headed Woodcreeper, "Lepidocolaptes souleyetii", but is larger, has a spotted crown, and is the only woodcreeper found at high altitudes.

Spot-crowned Woodcreeper feeds on spiders and insects, creeping up trunks and extracting its prey from the bark or mosses. It will join mixed-species feeding flocks.

The call is a squeaky "deeik" and the song is a trill and rattle "deeeeeeah hihihihihi".

References

* Stiles and Skutch, "A guide to the birds of Costa Rica" ISBN 0-8014-9600-4

External links

* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/10804200.htm Stamps] (for El Salvador) with RangeMap
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=spot-crowned+woodcreeper&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Spot-crowned Woodcreeper photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Lepidocolaptes+affinis Photo-High Res]


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