The Brown Creeper really has a name suited to it. If you have ever seen this bird creeping up and down trees, you’ll agree! It’s a joy to know that so many birds rely on trees in their ecosystems. Along with Woodpeckers, Flickers, Chickadees, and Nuthatches, Brown Creepers have a good and important relationship with the trees that they live in and around. They rely on the insects that live and dwell within and on top of trees. They use them for building their nests. They really do it in style as well.
As highlighted in the allaboutbirds.org overview on the Brown Creeper, W.M. Tyler said of this bird:
“The Brown Creeper, as he hitches along the bole of a tree, looks like a fragment of detached bark that is defying the law of gravitation by moving upward over the trunk, and as he flies off to another tree he resembles a little dry leaf blown about by the wind.”
The Brown Creeper is energetic and thus exhilarating to observe! I love the description Thornton W. Burgess writes in his classic, The Burgess Bird Book for Children:
He’s a funny little fellow and I don’t know of any one in all the great world who more strictly attends to his own business than does Seep-Seep the Brown Creeper.”
Burgess, Thornton W. The Burgess Bird Book for Children, Living Book Press, 2021, p. 203.
Here is what we gathered for Seep-Seep, the Brown Creeper:
Until next time, keep the look out for these tree creepers <3 Kate
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