Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Barcelos, Brazil
Identification & Behavior: ~30 cm (11.8 in). The Bar-bellied Woodcreeper has the head, mantle, and breast rufous-brown and largely unmarked. The belly and vent are barred with dusky. The bill is relatively long, thick, and ranges from reddish-gray to reddish. The throat is finely streaked with buffy. It forages alone or with mixed species flocks in the midstory of Terra Firme and mature floodplain forest. It also follows swarms of army ants. It is similar to the Black-banded Woodcreeper but is distinguished by larger size, reddish bill, and largely unmarked head, mantle, and breast.
Status: The Bar-bellied Woodcreeper is rare and little known in the Amazonian lowlands. It also occurs in Br and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Trepador de Vientre Barrado.
Sub-species: Bar-bellied Woodcreeper (Hylexetastes stresemanni undulatus), Todd, 1925.
Meaning of Name: Hylexetastes: Gr. Hule= woodland, forest exetastes, exetazo= examiner, to examine. stresemanni: In honor of Prof. Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (1889-1972) German ornithologist, explorer, collector.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.