This small, well-camouflaged bird can sometimes be seen climbing up tree trunks in a spiral pattern from the bottom to the top!

The Brown Creeper is slender and only about 5 inches long, and its streaked brown plumage blends in well with tree bark. Its stiff tail feathers are an adaptation shared with woodpeckers that allow it to prop itself against a vertical tree trunk. Its slender, decurved bill helps it probe for small insects and spiders hiding in bark crevices, and its methodical searching often starts at the bottom of a trunk, spirals upwards to near the top, and is followed by a short flight to the bottom of another trunk.