Episode Number
77
Episode Show Notes / Description
Brown creeper (Certhia americana).
The tree bark specialist with a high-pitched call.
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The following Cornell Lab | Macaulay Library recordings were used in this episode:
- Brown creeper song by Wil Hershberger (ML508349)
- Brown creeper call 1 by Geoffrey A. Keller (ML508344)
- Brown creeper call 2 by Robert C. Stein and Eugene Morton (ML508356)
- Golden-crowned kinglet call by Matthew D. Medler (ML508542)
Sources and more:
- https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_creeper
- https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/brown-creeper
- Godfrey, M. A., & Kaufman, Kenn. (Directors). (2004). National Audubon Society videoguide to the birds of North America [Video recording]. In Audubon videoguide to 505 birds of North America DVD I & DVD II (Fullscreen.). Godfrey-Stadin Productions.
- Peterson, R. T., & Peterson, V. M. (1980). A field guide to the birds: A completely new guide to all the birds of eastern and central North America (Fourth edition, completely revised and enlarged.). Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Sibley, D. (2016). Sibley birds East: Field guide to birds of eastern North America (2nd ed.). Alfred A. Knopf.
- Walton, R. K., & Lawson, R. W. (1989). Birding by Ear: Eastern/Central [Compact Disc]. On Eastern/Central birding by ear. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Transcript
This is Brodie with Illinois Extension and I’m here with a new “voice of the wild”
This bark-colored bird is a keen inspector of furrows and fissures in the bark of mature trees. They’ll use their stiff tailfeathers for support as they probe into these cracks with their decurved bill..and Unlike those other tree trunk specialists, the nuthatches, this bird tends to spiral up trees while they forage. This is the brown creeper.
The creeper is a common winter bird who mates in the far north. Their call is very thin and high, it’s similar in tone to the golden crowned kinglet but the creeper's call is unbroken, while the golden crowned’s is divided in two or three. The creeper is a solitary forager, so in the middle of a cold and seemingly lifeless winter hike, you may still find one bird; a little, charming, brown creeper.
Thank you to the Macaulay library at the Cornell lab for today’s sound. Learn more about voice of the wild at go.illinois.edu/VOW
This bark-colored bird is a keen inspector of furrows and fissures in the bark of mature trees. They’ll use their stiff tailfeathers for support as they probe into these cracks with their decurved bill..and Unlike those other tree trunk specialists, the nuthatches, this bird tends to spiral up trees while they forage. This is the brown creeper.
The creeper is a common winter bird who mates in the far north. Their call is very thin and high, it’s similar in tone to the golden crowned kinglet but the creeper's call is unbroken, while the golden crowned’s is divided in two or three. The creeper is a solitary forager, so in the middle of a cold and seemingly lifeless winter hike, you may still find one bird; a little, charming, brown creeper.
Thank you to the Macaulay library at the Cornell lab for today’s sound. Learn more about voice of the wild at go.illinois.edu/VOW