On 27 October 2004, in Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala, we observed a strong-billed woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus) chase and attempt to capture a mouse. The mouse jumped out of a bromeliad the woodcreeper was probing seconds earlier. If the woodcreeper was attempting to capture the mouse to eat it then it might have been opportunistically using a locally abundant food source although consumption of mammalian prey by woodcreepers has not been documented.
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1 September 2009
Strong-Billed Woodcreeper (Xiphyocolaptes promeropirhynchus) Attempting to Capture A Mouse
Rebecca G. Peak,
Selvin E. Peréz,
Pablo Herrera
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The Southwestern Naturalist
Vol. 54 • No. 3
September 2009
Vol. 54 • No. 3
September 2009