Dendrocolaptidae


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Noun1.Dendrocolaptidae - woodhewers or woodcreepers
bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
suborder Tyranni, Tyranni - New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers
Dendrocolaptes, genus Dendrocolaptes - type genus of the Dendrocolaptidae
woodcreeper, wood-creeper, woodhewer, tree creeper - any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
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Diets of four sympatric Amazonian woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptidae).
Simple artificial perches Family/Species G (1) J F M A M Ardeidae Syrigma I sibilatrix (Temminck, 1824) Accipitridae Rupomis magnirostris C (Gmelin, 1788) * Columbidae Columbina talpacoti G (Temminck, 1811) Palagioenas picazuro F (Temminck, 1813) Picidae Colaptes melanochloros I (Gmelin, 1788) Dryocopus lineatus I (Linnaeus, 1766) Psittacidae Forpus xanthopterygius F (Spix, 1824) Dendrocolaptidae Lepidocolaptes angustimstris I 1 (Vieillot, 1818) Furnariidae Fumarius nfus I (Gmelin, 1788) Tyrannidae Myiarchiis sp.
Entre las aves insectivoras, las familias Dendrocolaptidae y Formicariidae, parecen ser muy vulnerables por su dependencia a los habitats boscosos.
Geographic variation of plumage patterns in the woodcreeper genus Dendrocolaptes (Dendrocolaptidae).
Interspecific aggression and the ecology of woodcreepers (Ayes: Dendrocolaptidae).