[Length 5.25 in. Wingspan 7.75 in.]

Brown Creepers get their name from their mechanical method of foraging for food. They fly to the base of a tree and then climb up the trunk (never down as Nuthatches often do) like a clockwork toy, searching for insects, larvae, and eggs in the nooks and cranies of the bark. Their cryptic, brown streaked plumage helps them blend into the tree trunk, as this photo clearly shows. This Brown Creeper was photographed at Moore's Beach, NJ. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: January 1988)

[Length 5.25 in. Wingspan 7.75 in.]

Brown Creepers get their name from their mechanical method of foraging for food. They fly to the base of a tree and then climb up the trunk (never down as Nuthatches often do) like a clockwork toy, searching for insects, larvae, and eggs in the nooks and cranies of the bark. They have stiff, pointed tail feathers (much like a Woodpecker), which keep them from falling over backwards as they cling to the trunk, as this photo clearly shows. This Brown Creeper was photographed at Island Beach State Park, NJ. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300 lens on Kodachrome 64 film. (Date: October 1983)

[Length 4.5 in. Wingspan 7.75 in.]

This Brown-headed Nuthatch was photographed at a park in southern Delaware. Photo taken with a Celestron 750mm f5.6 lens on Ektachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1979)

[Length 4.5 in. Wingspan 7.75 in.]

This Brown-headed Nuthatch was photographed at a park in southern Delaware. Photo taken with a Celestron 750mm f5.6 lens on Ektachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1979)

[Length 5 in. Wingspan xx in.]

This Eurasian Nuthatch was photographed on a feeder at a nature center near Nemuro on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: January 1996)

[Length 5.5 in. Wingspan xx in.]

This male Eurasian Nuthatch was photographed at Arne RSPB Reserve, England. Photo taken with a Nikkor EDAF 300 f4.0 lens on Kodak Elitechrome 200 film. (Date: April 2002)

[Length 5.5 in. Wingspan xx in.]

This female Eurasian Nuthatch was photographed at Arne RSPB Reserve, England. Photo taken with a Nikkor EDAF 300 f4.0 lens on Kodak Elitechrome 200 film. (Date: April 2002)

[Length 4.25 in. Wingspan 7.75 in.]

This Pygmy Nuthatch was sphotographed at the Trail of Time, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Photo taken with a AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED [II] lens (EFL=300mm) on a Nikon D7000 camera. (Date: September 21, 2011)