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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This profile of a Brown Creeper tells the story of this species. The color and pattern of the feathers allow it to blend in with the bark of a tree almost perfectly. Also note the exaggerated size of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was the end of a very long day, but, because of the increasing daylight that we have all been enjoying, it was still light out when I got home. I pulled up to the garage, but I had to get out to ...