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brown creeper

noun

  1. creeper7



brown creeper

noun

  1. Also called: bush canarya small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae , of South Island, New Zealand

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“You have just heard the sound of a brown creeper and a common yellowthroat!” he told us.

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Some bird species including goshawks that require high forest canopies and brown creepers, which scoot up large trees and eat bugs, will likely decrease, at least in the short term.

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The summer food of the white-breasted nuthatch and the brown creeper, for example, includes the eggs, larvae, and adults of a very large number of insects injurious to trees.

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There have been reports of brown creepers, too.

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Two brown creepers fly by feet from my face, they circle up a pair of sugar maples, and she points out where deer have been bedding down.

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