The red-browed treecreeper (''Climacteris erythrops'') is a species of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
in the family
Climacteridae
There are seven species of Australasian treecreeper in the passerine bird family Climacteridae. They are medium-small, mostly brown birds with patterning on their underparts, and all are endemic to Australia-New Guinea. They resemble, but are n ...
.
It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to temperate and subtropical eastern
Australia.
It is found in mature eucalypt forests and woodlands in both coastal and mountainous regions, from central Victoria to south-eastern Queensland.
Diet
It feeds on
Invertebrates
Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordat ...
.
Red-browed Treecreeper , Birdlife Australia
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Description
It has a dark brown back and a red brow above its eye.
References
External links
red-browed treecreeper
Birds of New South Wales
Birds of Victoria (Australia)
Endemic birds of Australia
red-browed treecreeper
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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