Spot-crowned Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes affinis Scientific name definitions

The Spot-crowned Woodcreeper is endemic to Middle America, where it ranges south discontinuously across both slopes from Mexico to Panama. Like other members of the genus Lepidocolaptes, this is a small to mid-sized woodcreeper with a pale, slender, and slightly curved bill. The upperparts and tail are largely warm brown, while the underparts are duller brown, streaked radially with creamy white, and the head and neck are also dark, spotted and streaked paler. Also like other congeners, the Spot-crowned Woodcreeper is a regular constituent of mixed-species flocks in a wide range of forest types throughout its range, usually in singles but occasionally in pairs.