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Guianan Woodcreeper | Lepidocolaptes albolineatus
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The Guianan Woodcreeper is a small woodcreeper of the rainforest canopy in the Guianas. After the split of the former, broadly defined Lineated Woodcreeper, the name covers only the birds east of the Rio Negro and north of the Amazon. In this circumscription the species is not confirmed in the guide area.
Voice
The song is a short series of high, thin notes, with a slightly different rhythm from that of the related species. The call is a high, short tseet.
Recording: JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · xeno-canto
Identification
17–19 cm, small and slender, with a thin, slightly decurved, pale bill and a rufous tail. The crown is dark with fine whitish streaks. The upperparts are olive-brown to rufous-brown, the wings and tail rufous. The underparts are greyish brown with narrow, white, black-edged streaks. The sexes are alike.
Confusion species
Duida Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes duidae and Inambari Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae are almost identical and differ mainly in song; they are the species of this group in the Amazonian part of the guide area. Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii is larger, warmer brown and has buff streaks.
Habitat
The canopy and edges of tall, humid terra firme rainforest, also older secondary forest, in the lowlands and on low slopes. It searches thin branches for insects, often in mixed flocks. The nest is in a tree cavity or crevice.
Where the bird is most at home, classified by the vegetation units of the Andes and the west coast.
Range and movements
In its current circumscription not confirmed in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia or the Galápagos. Records from the guide area date from the time of the broadly defined species and belong to Duida Woodcreeper, Inambari Woodcreeper or, in north-eastern Bolivia, another related species. Outside the guide area in the Guianas, eastern Venezuela and in Brazil north of the Amazon and east of the Rio Negro.
- Resident
- dark = core range, pale = thinly spread
How and when to look
In the guide area, woodcreepers of this group are Duida Woodcreepers (north of the Amazon) or Inambari Woodcreepers (south of it). Guianan Woodcreeper can be found in the rainforest of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana.
Conservation status
Least Concern. The range lies largely in intact forest of the Guiana Shield.
Scientific name
Lepidocolaptes albolineatus | (de Lafresnaye, 1846)
De Lafresnaye described the species in 1846 as Dendrocolaptes albo-lineatus; because it was later moved to another genus, the author and year stand in brackets. The genus Lepidocolaptes was introduced in 1853 by Reichenbach. The genus name combines Greek lepis, 'scale', with kolaptēs, 'pecker', after the scaly plumage. The species name comes from Latin albus, 'white', and lineatus, 'lined': 'white-lined'. The specimen the first description was based on came from Cayenne, French Guiana.