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Brown Creeper

Certhia americana
BRCR · Certhiidae · Treecreepers
Forest provisional · from avonet
9heard

The brown creeper (Certhia americana), also known as the American treecreeper, is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper family Certhiidae.

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mean confidence
7–8 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

9Detections
7Days heard
0.60Mean confidence
3 AugFirst heard
15 SepLast heard
7,646Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

3 Aug 15 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home9 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-09-13 10:35
9 s
0.70
2026-08-18 05:56
9 s
0.67
2026-08-03 06:10
9 s
0.64
2026-08-07 22:08
9 s
0.62
2026-08-03 07:33
9 s
0.60
2026-09-15 13:55
9 s
0.58
2026-08-30 07:16
9 s
0.54
2026-08-11 07:56
9 s
0.52
2026-08-30 07:10
9 s
0.51
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 28 Sep, 1:30pm Archive