Whitlocka G. M. Mathews, 1912. Neoclima G. M. Mathews, 1912.
Climacteris is a genus of bird in the family Climacteridae. These birds and the other members of the family, genus Cormobates, are similar to Northern Hemisphere creepers, Certhiidae, in climbing helically up tree trunks looking for insect food. Differences from Cormobates are
Climacteris species have black, slightly downcurved bills.
They have a rusty chest stripe in the female. (In Cormobates the female is marked on the face.)
They have simple vocal repertoires that are the same for both sexes.
They lay heavily marked pinkish eggs (Simpson and Day 1999).
They are cooperative breeders; male offspring of previous broods and sometimes other individuals help breeding pairs (Doerr, 2003).
It contains the following species:
Image
Scientific name
Common Name
Distribution
Climacteris affinis
White-browed treecreeper
Australia.
Climacteris erythrops
Red-browed treecreeper
Australia
Climacteris picumnus
Brown treecreeper
Cape York, Queensland, throughout New South Wales and Victoria to Port Augusta and the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Climacteris melanurus
Black-tailed treecreeper
north and northwestern Australia
Climacteris rufus
Rufous treecreeper
Australia.
The Australian author G. M. Mathews published new generic names in 1912, based on characteristics that distinguished two species from this genus,
Whitlocka, to describe the black-tailed northwestern species, Climacteris melanurus. The generic epithet honoured the ornithologist F. Lawson Whitlock.[2]
Neoclima, assigning the species Climacteris picumnus, brown treecreeper, of Temminck as the type.[3]
^"Climacteridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
^whitlocka Jobling, J. A. (2018). Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2018). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from www.hbw.com on 21 July 2018).
^neoclima Jobling, J. A. (2018). Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2018). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from www.hbw.com on 21 July 2018).
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