Birds Guide

Australasian Treecreepers
White-throated Treecreeper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Aves   Order: Passeriformes   Family: Climacteridae de Sélys Longchamps, 1839
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.

Species of Climacteridae

• Papuan Treecreeper, Cormobates placens
  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

External links

• Australasian Treecreeper videos on the Internet Bird Collection