Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii

Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii

Colombian name: Trepatroncos Cabecirrayado

Mocupe, Lambayeque,Peru
October 2018

The Streak-headed Woodcreeper is distributed from southern Mexico through Central America to Venezuela and the extreme north of Brazil and down the Pacific coast as far as the extreme north of Peru. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.

It is found in more open woodland than most woodcreepers. It has a long, decurved pale bill, buff streaking on the crown and nape, whitish throat and broad black-edged whitish streaks below.

Louis Souleyet was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.

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