NOUN
- any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
How To Use woodcreeper In A Sentence
- Woodcreepers will not cross large, unforested gaps; this may become a problem for their survival as their habitat becomes increasingly fragmented.
- The songs of woodcreepers are simple and unmusical.
- It lived up to its reputation with violaceous trogon, cinnamon and other woodpeckers, woodcreepers, antwrens, antbirds, antshrikes, purple-throated fruit-crows, wrens and flycatchers.
- The Olivaceous Woodcreeper is distributed from Mexico through Central America and into most of tropical and sub-tropical South America.
- Woodcreepers sunbathe and have been seen anting, a behavior that is thought to help prevent or remove ectoparasites.
- Woodcreepers live primarily in lowland tropical forests and are mainly insectivores.
- Suboscines, which include flycatchers, ant-birds, woodcreepers, and ovenbirds, are now diverse in the New World, with about 1,100 species, nearly all of them in South America.
