Elegant Woodcreeper

Xiphorhynchus elegans

Least Concern

The Elegant Woodcreeper is a woodcreeper of humid forests in Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil. It hitches up tree trunks and along branches, propped on its stiff tail, probing bark and epiphytes for insects. Fun fact: Woodcreepers prop themselves on stiffened tail feathers to climb tree trunks, much as woodpeckers do.

Family

Furnariidae

Group

Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers

Range

Elegant Woodcreeper Range — Humid forests of Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil

Population

≈ Not quantified

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