Order
Passeriformes
Family
Furnariidae
Genus
Lepidocolaptes
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii

Sarah Dzielski
Version: 1.0 — Published March 18, 2016

Diet and Foraging

Diet

Streak-headed Woodcreepers mainly feed on non-flying arthropods (Poulin et al. 1994). Documented items in its diet include grasshoppers, ants, wasps, beetles, termites, spiders, arthropod larvae, and even crabs (Deigan 1936, Bronstein 1988, Poulin et al. 1994).

Streak-headed Woodcreeper apparently also consumes at least some small fruit (Poulin et al. 1994).

Foraging Behavior

Recommended Citation

Dzielski, S. (2016). Streak-headed Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes souleyetii), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.sthwoo1.01