Streak-headed Woodcreeper

This woodcreeper is found in lowlands up to 1500 m altitude, although normally below 900 m, in damp light woodland, plantations, gardens, and clearings with trees. It builds a leaf-lined nest 4.5 to 24 m up in a tree cavity, or sometimes an old woodpecker hole, and lays two white eggs.

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Original source: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Author: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

The Streak-headed Woodcreeper is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Streak-headed Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes souleyetii), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, northern Brazil and Guyana, and on Trinidad. This woodcreeper is found in lowlands up to 1500 m altitude, although normally below 900 m, in damp light woodland, plantations, gardens, and clearings with trees. It builds a leaf-lined nest 4.5 to 24 m up in a tree cavity, or sometimes an old woodpecker hole, and lays two white eggs. More

Streak-headed Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes souleyetii) by Chris Parrish. More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Dendrocolaptidae
Genus : Lepidocolaptes
Species : souleyetii
Authority : (Des Murs, 1849)