Woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptidae)
White-throated Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes albicollis) - HBW 8, p. 416
French: Grimpar à gorge blanche
German: Weißkehl-Baumsteiger
Spanish: Trepatroncos Gorgiblanco
Other common names: Bonfim/Vila Nova Woodcreeper (villanovae)
Taxonomy: Dendrocopus albicollis Vieillot, 1818, type from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
May form a superspecies with X. promeropirhynchus despite some authors recognizing race franciscanus as a subspecies of X. albicollis instead of X. falcirostris, and others treating villanovae as a race of X. falcirostris instead of X. albicollis; recent phylogenetic study based on morphology allied X. albicollis with X. major instead of X. promeropirhynchus but failed to include X. falcirostris. Race villanovae sometimes considered a separate species. Specimens from S part of range of nominate race, h.. View all taxonomy...
May form a superspecies with X. promeropirhynchus despite some authors recognizing race franciscanus as a subspecies of X. albicollis instead of X. falcirostris, and others treating villanovae as a race of X. falcirostris instead of X. albicollis; recent phylogenetic study based on morphology allied X. albicollis with X. major instead of X. promeropirhynchus but failed to include X. falcirostris. Race villanovae sometimes considered a separate species. Specimens from S part of range of nominate race, having more olive (less tawny) plumage and less rufous on rump, sometimes recognized as race argentinus. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- villanovae Lima, 1920 - known only from vicinity of type locality in NE Brazil (NE Bahia).
- bahiae Cory, 1919 - E Brazil (E & C Bahia).
- albicollis (Vieillot, 1818) - SE & S Brazil (S Bahia, S Goiás and Minas Gerais S to S Rio Grande do Sul), E Paraguay and NE Argentina (Misiones, NE Corrientes).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird moving up a trunk and flying away Locality Serra dos Tucanos Lodge, Tres Picos State Park, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil (ssp albicollis)
Keith Blomerley 15 September 2005 4 years ago 23 sec 3.8 -
A bird on a trunk, alert Locality Intervales State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil (ssp albicollis)
Josep del Hoyo 30 June 2004 5 years ago 42 sec 3.7 -
Bird foraging on a mossy tree trunk. Locality Intervales State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil (ssp albicollis)
Richard Garrigues 27 November 2008 2 years ago 30 sec 3
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Bird looks at the trunk for food
Locality Mury, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Helmut Schumann 23 September 2007 2 years ago 4
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Unsolicited. Locality Linhares, Espirito Santo State, Brazil
(ssp albicollis)
Ciro Albano 7 July 2009 2 years ago 3
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