Deconychura stictolaema The spot-throated woodcreeper (Certhiasomus stictolaemus) is a species of bird in subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae.
[2] It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, and possibly Suriname.
The nominate subspecies C. s. stictolaemus is mostly olive-brown above, with buffy streaks on the crown and nape and a more rufous chestnut rump and uppertail coverts.
Its flight feathers are mostly dusky brown with some rufous on the tips and often a bright cinnamon shoulder.
[6] The spot-throated woodcreeper almost always forages as part of a mixed-species feeding flock, and is usually there singly.
It feeds by hitching itself up tree trunks, often low to the ground but as high as 10 m (33 ft).
The spot-throated woodcreeper's song is a "high, short, staccato rattle, slightly rising and trailing off.