# Climacteris

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{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Brown Treecreeper bowra apr07.jpg 
| image_caption = [Brown treecreeper](/source/Brown_treecreeper) (''Climacteris picumnus'')
| taxon = Climacteris
| authority = [Temminck](/source/Coenraad_Jacob_Temminck), 1820
| type_species = ''[Climacteris picumnus](/source/Brown_treecreeper)''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=117 |title= Climacteridae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = Temminck, 1824
| synonyms = ''Whitlocka'' [G. M. Mathews](/source/G._M._Mathews), 1912.<br />''Neoclima'' G. M. Mathews, 1912.
}}

'''''Climacteris''''' is a genus of [bird](/source/bird) in the family [Climacteridae](/source/Climacteridae). These birds and the other members of the family, genus ''[Cormobates](/source/Cormobates)'', are similar to Northern Hemisphere creepers, [Certhiidae](/source/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](/source/cooperative_breeding); male offspring of previous broods and sometimes other individuals help breeding pairs (Doerr, 2003).

It contains the following species:
{| class="wikitable"
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name!! Distribution
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|120px ||''Climacteris affinis''|| [White-browed treecreeper](/source/White-browed_treecreeper) ||  Australia.
|-
|120px ||''Climacteris erythrops''|| [Red-browed treecreeper](/source/Red-browed_treecreeper) ||  Australia
|-
|120px ||''Climacteris picumnus''|| [Brown treecreeper](/source/Brown_treecreeper) ||   Cape York, Queensland, throughout New South Wales and Victoria to Port Augusta and the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
|-
|120px ||''Climacteris melanurus''|| [Black-tailed treecreeper](/source/Black-tailed_treecreeper) ||  north and northwestern Australia
|-
|120px ||''Climacteris rufus''|| [Rufous treecreeper](/source/Rufous_treecreeper) ||  Australia.
|-
|}

The Australian author [G. M. Mathews](/source/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](/source/Climacteris_melanurus)''. The generic epithet honoured the ornithologist [F. Lawson Whitlock](/source/F._Lawson_Whitlock).<ref name="whitlocka">[https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/whitlocka 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).</ref>
*'''''Neoclima''''', assigning the species ''Climacteris picumnus'', brown treecreeper, of Temminck as the type.<ref name="neoclima">[https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/neoclima 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).</ref>

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite book | last = Doerr | first = V. A. J. | year = 2003 | title = The New Encyclopedia of Birds | chapter = Australasian Treecreepers (Climacteridae) | editor =  Christopher Perrins | editor-link =  Christopher Perrins | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn = 0-19-852506-0}}
* Peterson, Alan P. (Editor). 1999. [http://www.zoonomen.net ''Zoological Nomenclature Resource'' (Zoonomen)]. Accessed 2007-08-30.
* {{cite book | last = Simpson | first = Ken | author2 = Day, Nicolas | year = 1999 | title = Birds of Australia | publisher = Princeton University Press | pages = [https://archive.org/details/birdsofaustralia00kens/page/369 369–370] | isbn = 0-691-04995-5 | url = https://archive.org/details/birdsofaustralia00kens/page/369 | access-date = 2007-08-30 | url-access = registration }}

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Category:Climacteris
Category:Climacteridae
Category:Bird genera
Category:Endemic birds of Australia

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