Listen to the Elegant woodcreeper
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About the Elegant woodcreeper
The Elegant woodcreeper is a bird in the family Furnariidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults weigh around 33 g.
What does the Elegant woodcreeper sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as calls. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The elegant woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus elegans) is a species of bird in the subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
More from the family Furnariidae
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Furnarius rufus
Red-billed scythebill
Campylorhamphus trochilirostris
Chestnut-winged hookbill
Ancistrops strigilatus
Pale-legged hornero
Furnarius leucopus
Brown-capped tit-spinetail
Leptasthenura fuliginiceps
Sharp-tailed streamcreeper
Lochmias nematura
Slender-billed miner
Geositta tenuirostris
Ruddy foliage-gleaner
Clibanornis rubiginosus
Rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner
Philydor erythrocercum
Lesser hornero
Furnarius minor
Orange-fronted plushcrown
Metopothrix aurantiaca
Scaly-throated foliage-gleaner
Anabacerthia variegaticeps
Frequently asked questions
What does an Elegant woodcreeper sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the Elegant woodcreeper on this page, including its calls. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
Is the Elegant woodcreeper endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Elegant woodcreeper as “least concern”.
What family does the Elegant woodcreeper belong to?
The Elegant woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus elegans) belongs to the family Furnariidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Calls · Pastaza: Kapawi area, left bank Río Pastaza, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Calls · Pastaza: Kapawi area, left bank Río Pastaza, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1269672 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Elegant woodcreeper – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Cláudio Dias Timm from Rio Grande do Sul – CC BY-SA 4.0