#1330 · 🐦 birds
Brown Creeper
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Boomkruiper ·Certhia americana
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what is it?
The brown creeper ( Certhia americana ), also known as the American treecreeper , is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper family Certhiidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 41,195 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1838 (188 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Brown Creeper
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Boomkruiper
- scientific name
- Certhia americana
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Certhiidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 41,195
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1838 by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Certhiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7458, Wikidata Q490294, GBIF 9581157, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.