Birds of the World - Dendrocincla


Tawny-winged Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla anabatina saturata) Range: MA: se Mexico to w Panama Costa Rica Similar to Ruddy Woodcreeper but note color variation and lack of whiskers around bill.
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


Plain-brown Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla fuliginosa) Range: MA, SA: se Honduras through Amazonia; e Brazil San Jeronimo, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Often common. Note dark malar stripe. Often with ant swarms and in Amazon compare to White-chinned Woodcreeper. Subspecies vary in shades of brown, streaking on underparts, and bill color.
Amazon foothills, note light biil and unstreaked chest.


Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa homochroa) Range: MA, SA: s Mexico to nw Venezuela Belize
Photograph by George Scott Photography © All Rights Reserved.

Note small size, uniform color, and whiskers around the bill. Often with ant swarms.


White-chinned Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla merula) Range: SA: Amazonia Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Note blue eyes. Similar to Plain-brown Woodcreeper, but face more uniform. Secretive inside 'tierra firma' forest, and virtually always with ant swarms.


Plain-winged Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla turdina) Range: SA: e Brazil, e Paraguay and ne Argentina Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A medium-sized woodcreeper.
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza © All Rights Reserved.


Tyrannine Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla tyrannina) Range: SA: Colombia and w Venezuela to c Peru ProAves Dusky Starfrontlet Reserve, Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Found from 2500m. to 3500m.