Nature Notes - White-browed Treecreeper

Features

White-browed Treecreepers (Climacteris affinis) are have an earth brown back with a striped black and white belly, dark eyes with white eyebrows.

Adaptations

White-browed Treecreepers hop-gallop methodically up desert tree trunks and branches, probing in the bark for insects then flutter-plane off to the base of the next tree to start again.

Habitat

In desert Australia they prefer to live in the mulga woodlands.

Range

White-browed Treecreepers are found in the southen half of the Australian deserts.

Wild Status

Although uncommon they White-browed Treecreepers are not threatened in the wild.

Diet

White-browed Treecreepers eat ants and other insects.

Predators

Predators of the White-browed Treecreeper can include birds of prey, snakes and feral cats and red foxes.

Size

135-150mm

Reproduction

White-browed Treecreepers breed from August to December. They make a nest of grass or stips of bark in the shape of a cup, lined with hair or down and placed in a deep hollow limb or trunk. The female usually lays two or three eggs that are pale pink with purplish red spots.

Extra Fun Facts

White-browed Treecreepers have a cricket-like call.

Comparison

Compare with the Gila Woodpecker of the Sonoran Desert.