BROWN CREEPER 



Mixed brown, white and buff above; wings with a bar o 

 buff-white; tail pale brown, the feathers sharply pointed; dul 

 white beneath; a long slender bill much. curved. Length, fivi 

 and one-half inches. 



Nest, made of twigs, shreds of bark and moss, in th 

 woods, placed behind a strip of loose bark on a half-dead tree 

 Eggs, four to eight, white spotted with reddish-brown, mainh 

 at the larger end, .60 x .50 inches. 



The Brown Creeper is an industrious protector of thi 

 trees. Every kind of egg and insect found in the crevices o 

 tree-bark is sought out and eaten by this little bird. Watcl 

 one of them as it starts at the foot of a tree and winds its wa} 

 patiently up the trunk to the top, searching out hidden food a; 

 it goes. Suddenly it loosens its hold and drops to the groum 

 only to begin the inspection of another tree in the same man 

 ner. Thus it works on hour after hour of every day, summe: 

 and winter. So earnest is it in this search that you may pas: 

 within a few feet of it unnoticed. 



The cool climate of Canada attracts the majority of thes( 

 birds in summer. There they build their nests and raise thei; 

 young. Some never go beyond the northern part of the Unitec 

 States for nesting, and others are found raising their younj 

 far south in the uplands of the Alleghanies. 



Many birds able to endure the cold of a northern wintei 

 are compelled to seek a warmer climate to obtain their natura 

 foods during that period. This is not true of the Browi 

 Creepers for their food is never buried under the snow 

 Creepers summering in Canada come down to the Northen 



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