Wedge-billed woodcreeper

The wedge-billed woodcreeper (Glyphorynchus spirurus) is a sub-oscine passerine bird in subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae.

It is found in Mexico, Central America, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

The underside of most wing feathers have a stripe of buff to buff-white that shows as a band in flight.

It occasionally is found in bamboo, young secondary forest, plantations, and open areas with some trees.

[5] The wedge-billed woodcreeper usually forages in pairs or as a member of mixed-species feeding flocks, especially those led by Thamnomanes antshrikes.

It picks prey from crevices and clumps of moss, flakes bark, and hammers on wood.

It builds a cup nest of fine plant fibers in a cavity, usually natural but sometimes made by a woodpecker.

The subspecies in the pectoralis group of Central America into Colombia sing "a rapidly ascending, accelerating and somewhat slurred series of c. 25 bubbly notes...'twee-lee-lee-le-le-ee-ee-eeeeeé' ".

In northern and western Amazonia the song is "a series of relatively clear whistles that ascends more slowly...'too-e too-e tu-tu-tu-tue’tue’twu’tweetwee' " or "tuee-tuee-tuee-tuee-teeé-teeé-tueé?".

Birds in the southeastern part of the range sing "2 short, clear whistles in with second note somewhat lower in frequency than first, 'treeee, treep' " or "weep-weep".