Mystery Bird: Brown Creeper, Certhia americana

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[Mystery bird] Brown Creeper, Certhia americana, photographed at the Big Sioux Recreation Area near Brandon, South Dakota. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]

Image: Terry Sohl, 30 December 2007.

Photo taken with a Canon 20D, 400 5.6L.

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Family Guy, S07E02 'I Dream of Jesus': Peter: Brian, can I see that paper for a sec? (Brian gives Peter the paper. Peter peruses the paper.) Peter: Huh... that's odd... I thought that would big news.

At first glance I thought some sort of juv nuthatch, but this is most likely a brown creeper, with the thin curved bill and the brown camoflage back.

Awwww! He's just bite sized. :)

"Mystery Bird" is one of my new favorite things on the intertubes. My ornithological knowledge could fit in a thimble that already has a finger in it, though, so I will wild guess at Dakotan Curve Billed Bark Hugger.

By Quiet Desperation (not verified) on 23 Apr 2009 #permalink

Agreed on brown creeper. Though this is pretty close to Sibley's illustration of the "Gray adult" variant, so I could see a case being made that it should be affectionately known as a "gray creeper" instead. :-)