Dendrocolaptes certhia
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The Amazonian barred woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes certhia) is a sub-oscine passerine bird in subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
The Amazonian barred woodcreeper was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from two specimens collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Picus certhia in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The Amazonian barred woodcreeper is now one of five woodcreepers placed in the genus Dendrocolaptes that was introduced by the French naturalist Johann Hermann in 1804. The generic name is from the Ancient Greek dendrokolaptēs meaning "woodpecker". The specific... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 2 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 4 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 5 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 6 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 7 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 9 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper sighting in Yasuní National Park on a given day, based on 285 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 181st most-seen of the 533 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and August–October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper in Yasuní National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, April, June and November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 9
Of the 9 parks where we can rate Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper sightings, Yasuní National Park ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname, about 20%) and Amacayacu National Natural Park (Colombia, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper is recorded against all the birds logged in Yasuní National Park (285 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.
