Appearance
The streak-headed woodcreeper is typically 19 cm long and weighs 28 g. It has olive brown upperparts with fine streaking on the crown, nape and upper back, a chestnut rump, wings and tail, and heavily streaked olive-brown underparts. The 2.5 cm long bill is slender and decurved. Young birds are duller with less distinct streaking.The streak-headed woodcreeper is very similar to the spot-crowned woodcreeper but is smaller, has a streaked, not spotted crown, and is found at lower altitudes.
Naming
This species' scientific name commemorates Louis François Auguste Souleyet, French zoologist and naval surgeon.
Behavior
The call is a sharp rolled "djeer" and the song is a whistled "piiiiiiiiir piiiiiiiiir piiiiiiiiir".
Habitat
This woodcreeper is found in lowlands up to 1,500 m altitude, although normally below 900 m, in damp light woodland, plantations, gardens, and clearings with trees. It builds a leaf-lined nest 4.5 to 24 m up in a tree cavity, or sometimes an old woodpecker hole, and lays two white eggs.
Food
The streak-headed woodcreeper feeds on spiders and insects, creeping up trunks and extracting its prey from the bark or mosses. It is normally seen alone or in a pair and unlike spot-crowned, rarely joins mixed-species feeding flocks.References:
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