Birds of Ecuador

    PASSERIFORMES: Furnariidae (Ovenbirds)  
Genus: Dendrocincla (3 species, 6 worldwide)


Plain-brown Woodcreeper
Plain-brown Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla fuliginosa)
San Jeronimo, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Often common. Note dark malar stripe. Often with ant swarms and in Amazon compare to White-chinned Woodcreeper. Subspecies vary in shades of brown, streaking on underparts, and bill color.
Amazon foothills, note light biil and unstreaked chest.

White-chinned Woodcreeper
White-chinned Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla merula)
Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia  
   
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Note blue eyes. Similar to Plain-brown Woodcreeper, but face more uniform. Secretive inside 'tierra firma' forest, and virtually always with ant swarms.

Tyrannine Woodcreeper
Tyrannine Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla tyrannina)
ProAves Dusky Starfrontlet Reserve, Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Found from 2500m. to 3500m.


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