Chestnut rumped Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus pardalotus)

Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper

[order] Passeriformes | [family] Dendrocolaptidae | [latin] Xiphorhynchus pardalotus | [UK] Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper | [FR] Grimpar flambe | [DE] Beigekehl-Baumsteiger | [ES] Trepatroncos Silbador | [IT] Rampichino groppone castano | [NL] Roodkeel-muisspecht

Subspecies

Genus Species subspecies Breeding Range Breeding Range 2 Non Breeding Range
Xiphorhynchus pardalotus SA ne Amazonia
Xiphorhynchus pardalotus caurensis
Xiphorhynchus pardalotus pardalotus

Physical charateristics

Crown blackish with buffy streaks and mantle reddish brown with tear shaped streaks. Rump, wings and tail chestnut. Throat cinnamon-buff, breadt olive brown streaked with buff, belly dull cinnamon buff. Long straight black bill. Sexes are alike.

Listen to the sound of Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper

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Range

Found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Habitat

Lowland evergreen forest. Low montane forest and tall terra fimre. In Suriname common in the snad rdiges and the interior.

Reproduction

Nest in natural cavity or hollow stump low above ground. Pair might stay together all year. Eggs placed on top of soft bark. Clutch size 1 egg incubated by both parents. Young are fed by both parents and will remain with parents after fledging for at least 3 more months.

Feeding habits

Diet consists of a great variety of a great variety of small insects. Prey is usually gleaned by hitching from understorey to subcanopy/

Conservation

This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,700,000 km². The global population size has not been quantified, but it is believed to be large as the species is described as ‘frequent’ in at least parts of its range (Stotz et al. 1996). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper status Least Concern

Migration

Sedentary throughout range.

Distribution map

Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper range map

Literature

Title MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, AND POPULATION GENETICS
OF XIPHORHYNCHUS (AVES: DENDROCOLAPTIDAE) IN THE AMAZON BASIN
Author(s): Alexandre Aleixo
Abstract: Among those few hypotheses amenable to falsificati..[more]..
Source: Dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the
Louisiana State University

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