Moustached Woodcreeper

Xiphocolaptes falcirostris

Vulnerable

The Moustached Woodcreeper is a woodcreeper of humid forests in Brazil. It hitches up tree trunks and along branches, propped on its stiff tail, probing bark and epiphytes for insects. Classified as Vulnerable, it is threatened mainly by the loss and fragmentation of its habitat. Fun fact: Woodcreepers prop themselves on stiffened tail feathers to climb tree trunks, much as woodpeckers do.

Family

Furnariidae

Group

Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers

Range

Moustached Woodcreeper Range — Humid forests of Brazil

Population

≈ Not quantified (declining)

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