The northern barred woodcreeper (''Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the subfamily

Dendrocolaptinae The woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae) comprise a subfamily of suboscine passerine birds endemic to the Neotropics. They have traditionally been considered a distinct family Dendrocolaptidae, but most authorities now place them as a subfamily of th ...

. It was formerly included as a

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of the

Amazonian barred woodcreeper The Amazonian barred woodcreeper (''Dendrocolaptes certhia'') is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily, the woodcreepers. The northern barred woodcreeper (''D. sanctithomae'') was formerly included in this species. The Amazonian ba ...

(''D. certhia''). It is found from southern

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through

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and

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

References

northern barred woodcreeper Birds of Central America Birds of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena northern barred woodcreeper Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Furnariidae-stub