On bird walks around Sunriver Nature Center we occasionally spot a very small brown bird known as the brown creeper. Its scientific name is Certhia americana. Certhia comes from the Greek word ...

It was a Brown Creeper and I simply couldn’t believe it. This was the first time that I had seen one of these birds in years and I didn’t have my camera. I was paralyzed with indecision.

A bird like this brown creeper could disappear in the 15 seconds that camera retrieval would require, which might result in no photo. On the other hand, I was guaranteed to get no photo if I didn’t ...

but rather a brown creeper and I reached for the camera. Brown creepers are common birds, but they are hard to see. They are tiny, well camouflaged — Audubon says, “like a piece of bark come ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Arkansas Game & Fish) -- The bird of the week this week is the brown creeper. They winter throughout much of the Eastern U.S. and up through the Midwest, and can be found in ...

“The birds are at a food source ... from the formidable wild turkey at the top to the tiny, retiring brown creeper at the bottom.