Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Australasian Treecreepers White-browed Treecreeper. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Climacteridae Genera Cormobates Climacteris There are 7 species of Australasian treecreeper in the passerine bird family Climacteridae. They are medium-small, mostly brown-coloured birds with patterning on their underparts and all are endemic to Australia-New Guinea. As their name implies, treecreepers forage for insects and other small creatures living on and under the bark of trees, mostly eucalypts, though several species also hunt on the ground, through leaf-litter, and on fallen timber. 'ORDER PASSERIFORMES Family Climacteridae White-throated Treecreeper, Cormobates leucophaeus White-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris affinis Red-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris erythrops Brown Treecreeper, Climacteris picumnus Black-tailed Treecreeper, ''Climacteris melanura' Rufous Treecreeper, Climacteris rufa (many other families in order) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.