Brown Creeper

Certhia americanaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Creeper (Certhiidae)

Overview

Brown Creeper: Small, tree-clinging bird with brown-streaked upperparts and white underparts. White line over eye and long, decurved bill are conspicuous. Legs and feet are pink-buff. Feeds on insects, larvae, nuts and seeds. Strong direct flights of short duration on rapid and shallow wing beats.

Range and Habitat

Brown Creeper: Breeds from Alaska to Newfoundland and southward to the western and northern U.S. Spends winters in breeding range and south to the Gulf coast and Florida. Preferred habitats include deciduous and mixed woodlands.

Listen:

Voice Text

"see-see-titi-see", "tsee"

Brown Creeper

● Song: "see-see-titi-see", "tsee"

● Foraging & Feeding: Brown Creeper: Diet consists of various insects, seeds, and some nuts; also come to feeders for suet. Usually forages by creeping along trunks and branches like a woodpecker.

● Breeding & nesting: Brown Creeper: Four to eight white eggs, lightly speckled with red brown, are laid in a cup of shredded bark, feathers, sticks, and moss, usually built against a tree trunk behind a peeling slab of bark. Incubation ranges from 13 to 17 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Brown Creeper: None in range.

Flight Pattern

Strong direct flight of short duration.

● Range & Habitat: Brown Creeper: Breeds from Alaska to Newfoundland and southward to the western and northern U.S. Spends winters in breeding range and south to the Gulf coast and Florida. Preferred habitats include deciduous and mixed woodlands.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.3 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Brown Creeper

Overview

Range and Habitat

Listen:

Voice Text

Related Birds:

Brown Creeper

Flight Pattern


HOME	Bird name: