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cocoa woodcreeper
Cocoa woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
Dendrocolaptidae
bird family
Dendrocolaptidae, songbird family, order Passeriformes, consisting of a number of brownish birds of the forest or brushland and found from Mexico through South America. Representative members are the scythebill and the woodcreeper (qq.v.).
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