Birds of Brazil

    PASSERIFORMES: Furnariidae (Ovenbirds)  
Genus: Xiphocolaptes (4 species, 4 worldwide)


White-throated Woodcreeper
White-throated Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes albicollis albicollis)
Intervales, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Bradley Hacker   © All Rights Reserved.

A large woodcreeper.

Moustached Woodcreeper
Moustached Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes falcirostris) Vulnerable ENDEMIC
Brazil  
   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.

A large, rare woodcreeper most closely related to the Great Rufous Woodcreeper, but note moustach.

Great Rufous Woodcreeper
Great Rufous Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes major remoratus)
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Strong-billed Woodcreeper
Strong-billed Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus)
Sachatamia, Mindo, Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Strong-billed Woodcreeper
Strong-billed Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus promeropirhynchus)
Chicaque Natural Park, Colombia
  An Andean race without the yellow eye ring.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

This large woodcreeper with many subspecies is found at many different altitudes.


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