Straight-billed Woodcreeper

Dendroplex picus

Least Concern

The Straight-billed Woodcreeper is a woodcreeper of humid forests in Colombia, Brazil, and Suriname. 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

Straight-billed Woodcreeper Range — Humid forests of Colombia, Brazil, and Suriname

Population

≈ Not quantified

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