Family Ovenbirds (Furnariidae)
Least Concern
Tyrannine Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla tyrannina)
Taxonomy
French: Grimpar tyran German: Tyrannenbaumsteiger Spanish: Trepatroncos tiranino
Taxonomy:
Dendrocops tyranninus
Lafresnaye
, 1851,“Santa-Fe de Bogota”
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Subspecies and Distribution
D. t. tyrannina
(Lafresnaye, 1851) – W & C Andes from C Colombia (Antioquia) S on both slopes to W Bolivia (W La Paz)#R.
D. t. hellmayri
Cory, 1913 – E slope of E Andes in NE Colombia (Norte de Santander, Boyacá) and adjacent W Venezuela (W Táchira).
Descriptive notes
23–26·5 cm; 40–64 g, male on average slightly heavier than female. Large and heavy-bodied for Dendrocincla, with large, tyrannid-like bill.... read more
Voice
Song, generally given 5–20 m up in subcanopy of ridgetop tree, an extended series of c. 90... read more
Habitat
One of few truly montane woodcreepers, found in humid forest and cloudforest in upper tropical to... read more
Food and feeding
Diet undescribed; presumably largely insectivorous. Almost always encountered singly; sometimes with mixed-species flocks, but not present... read more
Breeding
Very poorly known. Bird with moderately large gonads in early Oct in Peru (Cuzco); song heard in Mar in Colombia (Nariño) but not in... read more
Movements
Resident.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Although range fairly extensive, occurs in a relatively narrow elevational belt. Apparently uncommon to rare and local almost... read more
Suggested perhaps to be sister of D. anabatina, but genetic study suggests otherwise#R. Race hellmayri only marginally distinct. Purported race macrorhyncha, described on basis of two specimens from E slope in N Ecuador and sometimes treated as a separate species, appears to involve aberrant individuals (larger, longer-billed, lighter and more olivaceous plumage, pale throat more conspicuous) of nominate race. Proposed race brunnea (W Ecuador) inseparable from nominate. Two subspecies recognized.