Brown Creeper
Certhia americana
Synopsis:
Nests under loose bark of larger trees in woodlands throughout the
state.
Habitat Associations:
strongest
Sitka Spruce-W. Hemlock Maritime Forest (384586 acres)
Mountain Hemlock Montane Forest (331694 acres)
True Fir-Hemlock Montane Forest (1590158 acres)
Shasta Red Fir-Mountain Hemlock Forest (54084 acres)
Northeast Mixed Conifer Forest (2553419 acres)
Douglas Fir-Port Orford Cedar Forest (166447 acres)
Douglas Fir dominant - Mixed Conifer Forest (2532894 acres)
strong
Ponderosa Pine-dominant Mixed Conifer Forest (422711 acres)
Jeffery Pine Forest/Woodland (53780 acres)
Conifer Woodland on Serpentine Bedrock (51874 acres)
Subalpine Fir-Lodgepole Pine Montane Conifer (670563 acres)
Douglas Fir-W. Hemlock-W. Red Cedar Forest (6498818 acres)
Douglas Fir-Mixed Deciduous Forest (2934 acres)
Ponderosa Pine Forest/Woodland (4132084 acres)
Ponderosa Pine/White Oak Forest & Woodland (104507 acres)
Ponderosa Pine-W. Juniper Woodland (170273 acres)
Ponderosa-Lodgepole Pine on Pumice (1442760 acres)
Mixed Conifer/Mixed Deciduous Forest (1346891 acres)
South coast Mixed Forest (2888 acres)
some
Lodgepole Pine Forest/Woodland (247127 acres)
Coastal Lodgepole Forest (537 acres)
Douglas Fir-White Fir/Tanoak-Madrone Mixed Forest (1126272 acres)
Douglas Fir/White Oak Forest (196688 acres)
Red Alder (124543 acres)
Siskiyou Mtns Mixed Deciduous Forest (200392 acres)
White Oak Forest (115577 acres)
Grassland & Fir-Ponderosa Interspersed (304968 acres)
Subalpine Scattered Trees & Shrubs (71053 acres)
Urban/Residential (559822 acres)
Western Oregon Riverine Woodland (27749 acres)
Relative Detectability:
Fairly inconspicuous, but often heard. Breeding is
difficult to confirm.
Challenge:
Determine eastern limit of range in Lake County, and extent of
nesting in northeastern Harney and northern Malheur
Counties.