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title: "Brown Treecreeper"
description: "Climacteris picumnus — Birds. The brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) is the largest Australasian treecreeper."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/brown-treecreeper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown Treecreeper

> Climacteris picumnus — Birds. The brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) is the largest Australasian treecreeper.

- Scientific name: *Climacteris picumnus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `savanna` (Savanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 2643
- Wikidata: [Q790587](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q790587)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7802](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7802)

## Names

- en: Brown Treecreeper
- de: Braunbaumrutscher
- es: Corretroncos Pardo
- fr: Échelet brun
- nl: Grijze kruiper
- pt: Trepadeira-austral-castanha
- pl: Korołaz brunatny

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2562)

## Summary

The brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) is the largest Australasian treecreeper. The bird, endemic to eastern Australia, has a broad distribution, occupying areas from Cape York, Queensland, throughout New South Wales and Victoria to Port Augusta and the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Prevalent nowadays between 16˚S and 38˚S, the population has contracted from the edges of its pre-European range, declining in Adelaide and Cape York. Found in a diverse range of habitats varying from coastal forests to mallee shrub-lands, the brown treecreeper often occupies eucalypt-dominated woodland habitats up to 1,000 metres…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_treecreeper

## Photo

![Brown Treecreeper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-treecreeper/medium.jpg)

Photo: neotrigonia · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/249003117

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-treecreeper?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).