Ruddy Woodcreeper
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The Ruddy Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla homochroa), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from southern Mexico to northern Colombia and extreme northern Venezuela.
This woodcreeper is found in lowlands and foothills up to 1500 m in forest and adjacent semi-open woodland and clearings. It builds a leaf-lined nest 0.6 to 5 m up in a hollow palm tree stump, and lays 2-3 white eggs. Adult birds also sleep alone in tree crevices.
The Ruddy Woodcreeper is typically 20 cm long, and weighs 44 g. It is almost entirely rufous, with a paler throat and grey line from the bill to the eye. The bill is longish and straight.
Ruddy Woodcreeper feeds on spiders and insects. It will follow columns of army ants, sometimes in groups of up to three birds, dropping from saplings to catch prey fleeing the ants.
The call is a squeaky quink or loud deeah.
Like other woodland birds, this species has been adversely affected by deforestation.
[edit] References
- Hilty, Birds of Venezuela, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
- Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica ISBN 0-08-149600-4
