Looking like a piece of bark come to life, the Brown Creeper crawls up trunks of trees, ferreting out insect eggs and other morsels missed by more active birds. It is easily overlooked until its thin, ...

I immediately recognized it as a brown creeper – a rare bird in my backyard, but it was not alone. As I watched it, two more of them showed up, busily flying from tree to tree, probing the rough ...

Brown creepers are rare visitors to feeders but can be attracted with suet or miracle meal. Away from feeders, they forage on insects. Detection is the biggest challenge; once the small, camouflaged ...

The eggs of this bird measure four and a fourth eighths in length ... As some persons might suppose from my account of its habits, that it uses its tail to aid it in climbing, like the Brown Creeper, ...