Brown Creeper
Certhia americana
Also known as: American Treecreeper · American Brown Creeper · Brown Treecreeper
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 4-5 yrs
- Size
- Tiny
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Climbing
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Common
About
A tiny, cryptically streaked songbird that spirals up tree trunks probing bark crevices for insects with its slender, downcurved bill, then flits to the base of the next tree to start climbing again.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Certhiidae
- Genus
- Certhia
- Species
- Certhia americana