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Brown Creeper


The Brown Creeper (Certhia americana) is a small, tree-dwelling bird of 5.25 inches in length.  It has buff-streaked brown upperparts, white underparts, a white line over the eyes, and a slender, decurved bill.  It has a long, reddish tail with stiff, pointed tail feathers at the end.  The color of the back of the bird makes it well-camouflaged against the side of the tree.

The song of the Brown Creeper is a soft, musical see, see, titi, see.  Is is a relatively tame bird that forages for food by walking up the tree in a spiral motion.  It eats insects, insect larvae, seeds, and some nuts.  The Brown Creeper will occasionally come to feeders for nuts, peanut butter, suet, and cornmeal, a mixture of which can be applied directly to the tree trunks.

The Brown Creeper is fairly common in pine, spruce-fir, mixed coniferous-deciduous forests, and in swampy forests.

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