Straight-billed Woodcreeper
Dendroplex picus
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Furnariidae
- Genus
- Dendroplex
- eBird Code
- stbwoo2
Taxonomy Changes
Xiphorhynchus picus → Dendroplex picus
Genus transfer — GBIF Backbone Taxonomy uses the former name; AviList 2025 uses the current name.
Vocalizations
Subspecies (13)
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Dendroplex picus altirostris
Trinidad
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Dendroplex picus choicus
northern Venezuela (eastern Falcón eastward to Miranda)
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Dendroplex picus deltanus
northeastern Venezuela (Delta Amacuro)
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Dendroplex picus dugandi
northwestern Colombia (Chocó, Bolívar, Atlántico, and Santa Marta Mountains) and south along Pacific coast to northern Choco, and in Magdalena Valley to northern Huila
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Dendroplex picus duidae
eastern Colombia (eastern Vichada), southern Venezuela, and adjacent northwestern Brazil
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Dendroplex picus extimus
central and eastern Panama to northwestern Colombia
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Dendroplex picus longirostris
Isla Margarita (off Venezuela)
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Dendroplex picus paraguanae
northwestern Venezuela (Falcón and northern Lara)
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Dendroplex picus peruvianus
eastern Peru, Bolivia (except southern) and southwestern Brazil
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Dendroplex picus phalarus
llanos of interior northern Venezuela
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Dendroplex picus picirostris
coastal northern Colombia (Santa Marta Mountains) to far northwestern Venezuela
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Dendroplex picus picus
eastern Colombia to Venezuela, the Guianas, and Amazonian Brazil (lower Rio Negro eastward to Amapá and, south of the Amazon River, from Rio Madeira eastward to Ceará and Pernambuco, southward to Goiás and, on Atlantic coast, to northern Rio de Janeiro)
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Dendroplex picus saturatior
eastern Colombia and western Venezuela
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.