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BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



BROWN CREEPER (Certhia familiaris americana) Fig. 30 

 The Creeper is generally distributed in our area as a 

 winter resident of regular occurrence, but is usually only 

 fairly common, arriving the end of September and remaining 

 until the first week in May or even later. It is always a very 

 common transient. It has been found nesting in one locality 

 in northwestern New Jersey, and might occur in others. 





Courtesy of D. Appleton & Co. From Bird-Life 



Fig. 30. Chickadee and Brown Creeper 



Long Island. Abundant transient, fairly common winter 

 resident, September 10 to May 19. 



ORIENT. Common transient, rare in winter; September 

 10, 1913 to May 19, 1917 (Mabel R. Wiggins); average arrival 

 September 24. 



MASTIC. Fairly common transient and winter resident. 

 LONG BEACH. Casual on migration, five records in fall 

 from October 12, 1914 (Bicknell) to November 3, 1914 (J. 

 M. Johnson). 



