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Curve-billed Scythebill

Campylorhamphus procurvoides (de Lafresnaye, NFAA 1850)

The curve-billed scythebill is a species of bird in the ovenbird family. It is found in Amazonia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Source: Wikipedia




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Classification
Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Dendrocolaptidae
Genus:
   Campylorhamphus
Scientific:
  Campylorhamphus procurvoides

Original description

Citation:
  (de Lafresnaye, NFAA 1850)

Reference:
   Rev. Mag. Zool. Pure Appl. ser.2, t.2 p.376

Protonym:
  Xiphorhynchus procurvoides

Type locality:
  Cayenne.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19598#page/394/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  CD437B3E4C49C46F

Avibase ID:
  avibase-CD437B3E

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/CD437B3E

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 559021

Geographic range:

  • Campylorhamphus procurvoides: tropical rain forest in the Amazon River basin mostly north of the Amazon River from southeastern Colombia, northeastern Peru and adjacent Ecuador eastward to northern Brazil and southern Venezuela, and northward to the Guianas and far northeastern Venezuela; south of the Amazon River in southwestern Brazil, west of the Rio Madeira, in Amazonas and Rondônia
  • Campylorhamphus procurvoides procurvoides: eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and northern Brazil (east of the Rio Branco and Rio Negro)
  • Campylorhamphus procurvoides sanus: northwestern Amazonia, from Venezuela and Brazil (west of the Rio Branco and Rio Negro) westward to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru north of the Amazon
  • Campylorhamphus procurvoides gyldenstolpei: southwest Amazonian Brazil, west of the Rio Madeira; possibly also in eastern Peru (south of the Amazon River)
Source: Clements checklist
English:
Curve-billed Scythebill
Bulgarian:
Гвианска кривоклюна дърволазка
Catalan:
dalla amazònica
Czech:
srpozobec křivozobý
Danish:
Lenæb
German:
Dunkel-Sensenschnabel
Esperanto:
amazona falĉil-trunkogrimpulo
Spanish:
Picoguadaña del Amazonas
Spanish (Spain):
Picoguadaña del Amazonas
Finnish:
käyräsirppikipuaja
French:
Grimpar à bec courbe
Croatian:
riđokljuna puzavica
Italian:
Becco a falce beccocurvo
Japanese (romaji):
yumihashionikibashiri
Japanese:
ユミハシオニキバシリ
Lithuanian:
rudasis lipučiasnapis kopikas
Dutch:
Kromsnavelmuisspecht
Norwegian:
amazonbuetreløper
Polish:
drzewiarz krzywodzioby
Portuguese:
arapaçu-de-bico-curvo
Portuguese (Brazil):
arapaçu-de-bico-curvo/de-bico-curvo-do-napo/do-tupana
Portuguese (Portugal):
trepa-troncos-de-foice-amazónico
Russian:
Тёмный пишухоклювый древолаз
Slovak:
klzáčik krivozobý
Serbian:
Krivokljuna srpokljunka
Swedish:
amazonskärnäbb
Turkish:
Amazon Tırpangagası
Ukrainian:
дереволаз-серподзьоб амазонійський
Chinese:
淡嘴镰嘴䴕雀
Chinese (Traditional):
彎嘴鐮嘴鳥

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Curve-billed Scythebill [procurvoides, sanus or gyldenstolpei] ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides [procurvoides or gyldenstolpei])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Curve-billed Scythebill [procurvoides, sanus or gyldenstolpei] ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides [procurvoides or gyldenstolpei])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Curve-billed Scythebill [procurvoides, sanus or gyldenstolpei] ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides [procurvoides or gyldenstolpei])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Curve-billed Scythebill [procurvoides, sanus or gyldenstolpei] ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides [procurvoides or gyldenstolpei])
Avilist 2025:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v10 (Oct 2025):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Clements, version 2023:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Clements, version 2024:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Clements, version 2025:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
eBird version 2023:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
eBird version 2024:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
eBird version 2025:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018):
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2:
Curve-billed Scythebill ( Campylorhamphus procurvoides) [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: full species (sometimes nominal subspecies)

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Campylorhamphus [procurvoides, probatus or multostriatus] (sensu lato) by some authors

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Related taxa

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Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.


Bulgarian: Гвианска кривоклюна дърволазка
Catalan: dalla amazònica
Czech: srpozobec křivozobý
Danish: Lenæb
German: Dunkel-Sensenschnabel
English: Curve-billed Scythebill, Curve-billed Scythebill [procurvoides, sanus or gyldenstolpei]
English (Avilist): Curve-billed Scythebill
English, HBW: Curve-billed/Xingu/Tapajos Scythebill
English (IOC): Curve-billed Scythebill
English (United States): Curve-billed Scythebill
Esperanto: amazona falĉil-trunkogrimpulo
Spanish: Picoguadaña del Amazonas
Spanish (Ecuador): Picoguadaña Piquicurvo
Spanish (Spain): Picoguadaña del Amazonas
Spanish (Peru): Pico-Guadaña de Pico Curvo
Spanish (Venezuela): Trepador Pico de Hoz
Finnish: Käyräsirppikipuaja
French: Grimpar à bec courbe, Grimpar à bec courbe [procurvoides, sanus or gyldenstolpei], Grimpar à bec courbe [procurvoides, sanus ou gyldenstolpei]
Croatian: riđokljuna puzavica
Italian: Becco a falce beccocurvo
Japanese: ユミハシオニキバシリ
Scientific: Campylorhamphus procurvoides, Campylorhamphus procurvoides [procurvoides or gyldenstolpei], Campylorhamphus procurvoides procurvoides, Xiphorhynchus dorsoimmaculatus, Xiphorhynchus procurvoides
Lithuanian: Rudasis lipučiasnapis kopikas
Dutch: Kromsnavelmuisspecht
Norwegian: Amazonbuetreløper
Polish: drzewiarz krzywodzioby
Portuguese: arapaçu-de-bico-curvo
Portuguese (Brazil): arapaçu-de-bico-curvo/de-bico-curvo-do-napo/do-tupana
Portuguese (Portugal): trepa-troncos-de-foice-amazónico
Russian: Тёмный пишухоклювый древолаз
Slovak: klzáčik krivozobý
Serbian: Krivokljuna srpokljunka
Swedish: amazonskärnäbb
Turkish: Amazon Tırpangagası
Ukrainian: Дереволаз-серподзьоб амазонійський
Chinese: 淡嘴镰嘴䴕雀
Chinese (Traditional): 彎嘴鐮嘴鳥

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