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Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper (Drymornis bridgesii)

Bagé, RS, Brazil.

 

It's the only species in the genus Drymornis.

 

The species is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

 

Unlike other woodcreepers, the species perches on horizontal branches and it is usually seem on the ground looking for food (spiders and insects).

 

Known locally as "arapaçu-platino".

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Suborder: Tyranni

Family: Furnariidae

Subfamily: Dendrocolaptinae

Tribe: Dendrocolaptini

Genus: Drymornis Eyton, 1852

Species: D. bridgesii (Eyton, 1849)

Binomial name: Drymornis bridgesii

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