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CREEPERS
Family Certhiidae
Chapter author: J. Michael Reed
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of Brown Creepers Certhia americana: a taxonomic mystery. Ibis
142:457-465.
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thrashers, and their allies. Bulletin of the United States National
Museum 195. [reprinted by Dover]
Davis, C. M. 1978. A nesting study of the Brown Creeper. Living Bird
17:237-263.
Harrop, S., and D. Quinn. 1995. Chickadees, tits, nuthatches & treecreepers.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Norberg, R. Å. 1981. Why foraging birds in trees should climb
and hop upwards rather than downwards. Ibis 123:281-288.
Norberg, R. Å. 1986. Treecreeper climbing: mechanics, energetics,
and structural adaptations. Ornis Scandinavica 17:191-209.
Richardson, F. 1942. Adaptive modifications for tree-trunk foraging
in birds. University of California Publications in Zoology 46:317-368.
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