my head whenever someone mentions an animal after going on that damn website: i could put that on a list
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ALTDecember 28, 2025 - Rusty-flanked Treecreeper (Certhia nipalensis)
Found in parts of Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal, these treecreepers live in forests. They eat arthropods, foraging on tree trunks and low branches alone, in pairs, or sometimes in small groups. They probably breed between April and June. One of their nests was loosely built from dry moss and feathers in a tree crevice and had a clutch of three eggs.
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#3481 - Climacteris rufus - Rufous Treecreeper
Creeping on trees, rufously. The name means ‘reddish ladder-climber’.
Small birds endemic to Western and South Australia, usually in eucalypt woodland, where they patrol the treetrunks searching for insects.
Australasian treecreepers nest in tree hollows, and can be territorial, but some species recruit up to three helpers - usually older male offspring - to help construct the nest, feed the incubating female, and rear their younger siblings.
The Climacteridae family is found in Australia and Papua, but despite resembling the Certhiid treecreepers of the Northern Hemisphere, are not closely related.
Yilliminning Rock, E. of Narrogin, Western Australia
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Passeri suborder - round 1, section 2
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Certhioidea superfamily
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The short-toed treecreeper moves in quick spirals up tree trunks, using its curved bill to pick insects from bark crevices. It blends easily into the tree’s surface, relying on its mottled plumage for camouflage as it works methodically upward.
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Australasian treecreeper (Climacteridae) family
Which is the best bird?
White-throated treecreeper
Brown treecreeper
White-browed treecreeper
Rufous treecreeper
Black-tailed treecreeper
Red-browed treecreeper
See ResultsThis family contains just six eligible species in two genera (Cormobates and Climacteris).
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Treecreeper (Certhiidae) family (genus Certhia)
Which is the best bird?
Sichuan treecreeper
Sikkim treecreeper
Hume’s treecreeper
Bar-tailed treecreeper
Hodgson’s treecreeper
Rusty-flanked treecreeper
Eurasian treecreeper
Short-toed treecreeper
Brown creeper
See ResultsThis genus is monotypic in its family.
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ALTSeptember 15, 2025 - Eurasian Treecreeper or Common Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)
Found across much of Europe and northern Asia from Ireland to Japan, these treecreepers live in forests and woodlands. They eat insects, spiders, and some seeds during the winter, mostly picking prey from crevices in bark with their sharp bills. Pairs build nests from conifer needles, bark fibers, grass, moss, lichen, wood chips, and other materials, usually under flaps of loose bark or in crevices on tree trunks. Females add linings of feathers, hair, wool, lichen, spiderwebs, and other materials and incubate clutches of between two and nine eggs. Both parents feed the chicks, though only the females brood them.
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Song Thrush and view on a walk from Millyford Bridge in the New Forest and treasure flower and sunflower in the garden today 09/08/2025
Spotted Flycatcher, Treecreeper, Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Speckled Wood and tormentil were other highlights in the New Forest with Barred Marble and Common Crimson-and-gold moth stars of a moth trap we did last night/this morning and Starlings other at home highlights.
