Brown Creeper, Certhia americana
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![]() Brown Creepers climb up the trunks of trees and along their branches, seeking bugs in the crevices of the bark; then they fly to another tree (usually the bottom of) nearby and repeat the process. |
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![]() Above, a creeper on the vertical part of its rounds, climbing up the trunk. Below, an ascending creeper with a captive insect in its bill; this one is in my own yard on the Stanford campus. |
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![]() A creeper foraging on a horizontal branch, this one photographed from my driveway. | |
![]() On their horizontal forays, creepers can work upside-down. | |
![]() An ascending creeper demonstrates the camouflaging effect of its plumage. |