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Olivaceous Woodcreeper (Sittasomus griseicapillus)

Olivaceous Woodcreeper
Photo: Joao Quental via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Olivaceous Woodcreeper

The olivaceous woodcreeper (Sittasomus griseicapillus) is a passerine bird in subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found from central Mexico south through every Central American country, on the island of Tobago, and in every mainland South American country except Chile, French Guiana, and Suriname. The olivaceous woodcreeper is the only member of genus Sittasomus. However, taxonomic systems vary in their treatment of the taxon, with some splitting it into two species. The International Ornithological Committee and the Clements taxonomy assign these 15 subspecies to the olivaceous woodcreeper; Clements distributes them among five groups. "Grayish" group S. g. jaliscensis Nelson, 1900 S. g. gracileus Bangs & Peters, J.L., 1928 S. g. sylvioides Lafresnaye, 1850

Source: Olivaceous woodcreeper on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Olivaceous Woodcreeper. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:41) via xeno-canto.org/251549, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Song (0:10) via xeno-canto.org/250231, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Song (0:43) via xeno-canto.org/248790, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

3 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×3 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 498 recordings for this species in total.

Other birds in this region

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.