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Climacteridae

Australasian Treecreepers
White-browed-Treecreeper-224.jpg
White-browed Treecreeper.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Climacteridae
Genera
Cormobates
Climacteris

There are 7 species of Australasian treecreeper in the passerine bird family Climacteridae. They are medium-small, mostly brown-coloured birds with patterning on their underparts and all are endemic to Australia-New Guinea.

As their name implies, treecreepers forage for insects and other small creatures living on and under the bark of trees, mostly eucalypts, though several species also hunt on the ground, through leaf-litter, and on fallen timber.

  • ORDER PASSERIFORMES
    • 'Family Climacteridae'
      • White-throated Treecreeper, Cormobates leucophaeus
      • White-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris affinis
      • Red-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris erythrops
      • Brown Treecreeper, Climacteris picumnus
      • Black-tailed Treecreeper, Climacteris melanura'
      • Rufous Treecreeper, Climacteris rufa
    • (many other families in order)

Referenced By

List of birds | List of birds on Wikipedia | Passeriform | Passeriformes | Passerine | Passerines | Perching bird | Perching birds | Sibley-Monroe checklist 12

 

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