Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The northern barred woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae) is a sub-oscine passerine bird in subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found from southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
The northern barred woodcreeper was originally treated as a subspecies of the Amazonian barred woodcreeper (D. certhia). They were separated in the 1990s and remain a superspecies. Its further taxonomy, however, is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy assign it these four subspecies:
BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats D. s. punctipectus as a separate species, the eastern barred woodcreeper, and calls D. sanctitihomae the western barred woodcreeper. Clements recognizes the western and eastern designations within the single species, and the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society notes a publication that proposes the separation. Subspecies D... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Northern Barred-Woodcreeper sighting in Darién National Park on a given day, based on 61 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 148th most-seen of the 397 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and February
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Northern Barred-Woodcreeper in Darién National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April, June–August and October–November, the lowest months. Those are among Darién National Park's driest months, with about 110 mm of rain a month against 450 mm in November.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Northern Barred-Woodcreeper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
12th of 33
Of the 33 parks where we can rate Northern Barred-Woodcreeper sightings, Darién National Park ranks 12th at about 10%. The best odds are in Santa Rosa National Park (Costa Rica, about 20%), Tikal National Park (Guatemala, about 20%) and Soberanía National Park (Panama, about 10%).
Same family: Furnariidae
The closest relatives of the Northern Barred-Woodcreeper that you can see in Darién National Park (family Furnariidae, Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers) are Cocoa Woodcreeper (about 30%), Black-striped Woodcreeper (about 30%) and Wedge-billed Woodcreeper (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Northern Barred-Woodcreeper is recorded against all the birds logged in Darién National Park (61 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
