We report on novel information on the diet for the Straight-billed Earthcreeper (Ochetorynchus ruficaudus), an uncommon Furnariid of Andean arid environments. We describe an event of food consumption in northern Chile and complement our findings by searching citizen science repositories for photographic evidence of food items. We identified novel food items belonging to Coleoptera and Lepidop-tera insect orders. These findings contribute to our understanding of the natural history of an uncommon species, making use of opportunis-tic photography and freely available, ever-increasing citizen science data.