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OLIVACEOUS WOODCREEPER Sittasomus griseicapillus
A little brown bird skipping up a tree-trunk in a corkscrew motion is the Olivaceous Woodcreeper. Much the smallest member of the woodcreeper subfamily, it has a short, almost passerine-like bill. Olivaceous Woodcreepers are often common birds, but as with other woodcreepers are easily overlooked when not calling. Listen out for their distinctive, descending, drawn-out, whistled call.
FIGURE 1 - Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2 - Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 3 - Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 4 - Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith February - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 5 - Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith February - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
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Sittasomus griseicapillus song recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.