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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.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3424PH) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Ville Lintusaari June 2012).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3425PH) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel March 2008).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE3426PH) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE3427PH) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE3428PH) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith February).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE3429PH) Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith February).
VIDEO - (FPAVE3430VI) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith April 2010).
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Sittasomus griseicapillus
1 (FPAVE3431RE) song recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
2 (FPAVE3432RE) chatter recorded Estancia Golondrina, PN San Rafael (Myriam Velázquez October 2000).
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.
