French: Échelet leucophée German: Weißkehl-Baumrutscher Spanish: Corretroncos gorjiblanco
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Subspecies and Distribution
C. l. minor
(E. P. Ramsay, 1891) – Little Treecreeper – highlands of NE Queensland, in NE Australia.
C. l. intermedia
(Boles & Longmore, 1984) – highlands of CE Queensland.
C. l. metastasis
Schodde, 1989 – SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.
C. l. leucophaea
(Latham, 1801) – White-throated Treecreeper – coast, highlands and W slopes (upper watersheds of Murray–Darling Basin) of SE Australia from CE New South Wales S to SE South Australia.
C. l. grisescens
(Mathews, 1912) – Mt Lofty Ranges, in SE South Australia.
14–16·5 cm; 17 g (minor) to 22 g (nominate). Male nominate race is dark brown above, with thin whitish loral streak, fine grey scaling on forehead, thin... read more
Typical territorial call (both sexes) a series of penetrating piping notes, repeated rapidly, then... read more
Wide variety of wooded habitats, including tropical and subtropical rainforest, cool temperate... read more
Food and feeding
Adult and larval insects, mainly ants (Formicidae); also spiders (Araneae); occasionally sap from acacias or eucalypts, and rarely nectar.... read more
Season Aug/Sept–Dec/Jan; normally single-brooded. Socially monogamous, normally breeding as pair; individual (of either sex)... read more
Sedentary. In radio-tracking study, juveniles of both sexes made forays ranging from less than 100... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Common. Population densities in different parts of New South Wales, 0·1–1·13 birds/ha (0·32/ha in detailed study) in NE, 0... read more
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