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Field Notes

Habitat:

This guy was seen at the Tirimbina biological reserve in Sarapiquí. I noticed him in a tree near the lodge. The area can be described as a humid pre-montane tropical forest with elevation between 180 and 220 meters. 85% of the property is primary forest. http://www.tirimbina.org/what-is-tirimbina/physical-description.html

Species ID Suggestions

Spotted Woodcreeper

Xiphorhynchus erythropygius

Comments (3)

With all the additional info, thanks btw, I would now think of the Spotted Woodcreeper, Xiphorhynchus erythropygius, more than the others. But, please, verify and I would be happy, if some other folks my check this one as well... My argumentents: bicolored beak with brighter underside, shape and size of the beak, brighter eye-spot, whitish spots and habitat. http://tgreybirds.com/Pages/SpottedWoodcreeperp.html https://www.flickr.com/photos/llp_unesolitaire/8736860173/ http://www.mangoverde.com/wbg/picpages/pic108-37-2.html http://avesphoto.com/website/PA/gallery/Gall-8.htm
I updated habitat with info about the spotting.
Can you tell us more ofthe habitat here exactly you found this woodcreeper? Humid lowlands? Higher elevation forest? Cloud forest? Be as accurate as possible, even with the exact altitude, because the habitat is one of the most important criteria to separate these similar looking birds. Beak and head is the other one. But in your picture it is not easy to see them clearly. Could be spot-crowned woodcreeper, Lepidocolaptes affinis as one candidate and if found in higher altitude and probably not the Cocoa Woodcreeper.
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PublishedMay 24, 2014

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