Appearance
The spot-crowned woodcreeper is typically 21.5 cm long, and weighs 35 g. It has a spotted crown, olive brown upperparts with fine streaking on the upper back, a chestnut rump, wings and tail, and heavily streaked olive-brown underparts. The bill is slender and decurved. Young birds are duller with less distinct streaking and crown spots. The call is a squeaky "deeik" and the song is a trill and rattle "deeeeeeah hihihihihi".The spot-crowned woodcreeper is very similar to streak-headed woodcreeper, "Lepidocolaptes souleyetii", but is larger, has a spotted crown, and is the only woodcreeper found at high altitudes.
Behavior
It builds a leaf-lined nest 0.6 to 8 m up in a tree cavity or old woodpecker or barbet hole, and lays two white eggs.It feeds on spiders and insects, creeping up trunks and extracting its prey from the bark or mosses. It will join mixed-species feeding flocks.
Habitat
This woodcreeper is found in mountains from 1000 m to the timberline in mossy, epiphyte-laden forest and adjacent semi-open woodland and clearings.References:
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