Brigida's woodcreeper

Brigida's woodcreeper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Hylexetastes
Species: H. brigidai
Binomial name
Hylexetastes brigidai
da Silva, Novaes & Oren 1995
Synonyms

Hylexetastes perrotii brigidai

The Brigida's woodcreeper (Hylexetastes brigidai), also known as the Mato Grosso woodcreeper, is a bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the red-billed woodcreeper.

It is endemic to humid forests in the eastern Amazon in Brazil.

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