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The lesser woodcreeper's song is a "fast, sharp rattle, stuttered at end"; the nominate subspecies' song also stutters at the beginning. It has been put into words as "chit, chit, chit, chee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee, chit, chit-chit." Its calls include a "very high, sharp 'fieet fieet' " and "doubled 'peep,
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swarms. It forages mostly on tree trunks but also on branches, usually from the understory to the forest's mid-level but sometimes all the way to the canopy. It favors trees with rough bark, often with moss rather than lichen cover, and does much of its foraging in dead leaf clusters and dead
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