| Olivaceous Woodcreeper (Sittasomus griseicapillus) | ||||
| Brazil The Olivaceous Woodcreeper is distributed from Mexico through Central America and into most of tropical and sub-tropical South America. It is found in a wide variety of wooded habitat from humid forest to caatinga and cerrado. Most authorities seem to agree that this species should be split into 3 or 4 separate species but somebody needs to revise the taxonomy properly before such a split can take place. There are five main groups of sub-species: the griseicapillus group in Amazonia and the chaco; the aequatorialis group on the Pacific coast of South America; the griseus group in Central America and adjacent South America; the reiseri group of north-east Brazil; and the sylviellus group of eastern and south-eastern South America. |
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| Both these photos were taken in eastern Brazil so should belong to the sylviellus group. The second photo shows a bird on the underside of a branch looking a lot greyer than one would expect from a bird in this group but this might be due to the poor light in which the photo was taken. | ||||
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