any of a number of Australian birds of the genus Climacteris, which have slender down-curved bills and run up the trunks of trees searching for insects, as the brown treecreeper, C. picumnus, of the south-eastern part of Australia.
any of a number of Australian birds of the genus Climacteris, which have slender down-curved bills and run up the trunks of trees searching for insects, as the brown treecreeper, C. picumnus, of the south-eastern part of Australia.