Straight-billed Woodcreeper

Dendroplex picus

IUCN: Least Concern

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

Tomaz Nascimento de Melo · CC0_1_0
Liu Idárraga O. · CC_BY_4_0
Helio Lourencini · CC_BY_4_0

Subspecies (13)

  • Dendroplex picus altirostris

    Trinidad

  • Dendroplex picus choicus

    northern Venezuela (eastern Falcón eastward to Miranda)

  • Dendroplex picus deltanus

    northeastern Venezuela (Delta Amacuro)

  • 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

  • Dendroplex picus duidae

    eastern Colombia (eastern Vichada), southern Venezuela, and adjacent northwestern Brazil

  • Dendroplex picus extimus

    central and eastern Panama to northwestern Colombia

  • Dendroplex picus longirostris

    Isla Margarita (off Venezuela)

  • Dendroplex picus paraguanae

    northwestern Venezuela (Falcón and northern Lara)

  • Dendroplex picus peruvianus

    eastern Peru, Bolivia (except southern) and southwestern Brazil

  • Dendroplex picus phalarus

    llanos of interior northern Venezuela

  • Dendroplex picus picirostris

    coastal northern Colombia (Santa Marta Mountains) to far northwestern Venezuela

  • 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)

  • 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.