It is challenging to find information on the Brown Creeper. This small, secretive bird has not been studied as intensely as many of our other songbirds, but it is fascinating and deserves our ...

The brown creeper is a hard bird to track down. As its name suggests, it is a brown bird that spends much of its time creeping, in this bird’s case along the brown bark of a big tree. This makes the ...

Temperatures for the first half of the month of January were far above normal. It seems like the readings have avoided the extremes of both warmth and cold; many days were of what we would call mild.

They’re described variously as “pieces of moving bark,” “long-tailed scraps of brown,” and “tiny dry leaves blown by the wind.” We’re talking brown creepers, birds easily overlooked but fascinating to ...

I can’t remember the first one I saw, but I am quite sure it was early on in my years at Quarry Hill, so somewhere in the ’80s. That means I had gone through almost 40 years without seeing or even ...

GRAND FORKS – The steady procession of birds continued into this week, and the list of species was a long one. Two stood out: The dark-eyed junco because it is uncountably abundant, and the brown ...

Listen carefully on your next woodland walk, and you might hear a hint that a seldom-seen Michigan songbird is nearby. The brown creeper is a secretive bird whose dappled brown-and-white coloring ...

We were down near Hagerman last week enjoying a snow-free break and adding to our bird count. Near Clear Lakes Resort, we pulled into a small park owned and maintained by Idaho Power and began ...

At Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, we participate in several of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) every year in the winter. The counts are a way to provide population data for use in conservation ...