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  • noun Any of various small passerine birds of the family Certhidae which live in woodlands throughout the Northern hemisphere.

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Examples

  • Waterbirds such as the kingfisher suffered very high mortality rates when rivers and streams froze over, while small insect-eating species such as the treecreeper, goldcrest, wren and long-tailed tit died because of widespread "glazed frosts", a layer of ice over the branches of trees which covered up their food supply.

    Weatherwatch: 'War winter' took it's toll on Britain's birds 2011

  • These include northern logrunner or chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii, little treecreeper Climacteris minor, Atherton scrubwren Sericornis keri, Australian fernwren Crateroscelis gutturalis, mountain thornbill Acanthiza katherina, bridled honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus, Bower's shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha, tooth-billed catbird Ailuroedus dentirostris and golden bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana.

    Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008

  • He never used binoculars, but sometimes, putting on his glasses, would get up and make a cautious approach for a closer sight of a nuthatch, perhaps, or it might be a treecreeper in the pines beyond the rhododendrons.

    The Girl In A Swing Adams, Richard, 1920- 1980

  • We also saw two separate flocks of long tailed tits in the trees, whispering and flitting from branch to branch, some of them came quite close to us, beautiful birds and very colourful when you get close to them. we saw a treecreeper climbing up the branches of a tree overhanging the water.

    Crafty Green Poet 2009

  • Birds: eastern yellow robin (NE form with yellow rump), white-browed scrubwren, white-throated treecreeper, brush turkey, emerald dove (green-winged pigeon), wompoo pigeon, fan-tailed cuckoo and female regent bowerbird.

    A Snail's Eye View 2009

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