Brown Creeper

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Certhiidae

Genus

Certhia

eBird Code

brncre

Subspecies (13)

• Certhia americana alascensis

  breeds south-central Alaska; winters to Arizona and New Mexico

• Certhia americana albescens

  mountains of southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico

• Certhia americana alticola

  mountains of southern Mexico

• Certhia americana americana

  breeds northern Saskatchewan to Newfoundland and northeastern USA; winters to Mexico

• Certhia americana extima

  mountains of eastern Guatemala, Honduras, and northwestern Nicaragua

• Certhia americana leucosticta

  southern Nevada and Utah (west-central USA)

• Certhia americana montana

  interior southwestern Canada southward to central USA

• Certhia americana nigrescens

  Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina

• Certhia americana occidentalis

  coastal southeastern Alaska to central California (southward to Marin County)

• Certhia americana pernigra

  mountains of far southern Mexico (Chiapas) and northern Guatemala

• Certhia americana phillipsi

  resident in Coast Ranges of central California (San Mateo County southward to San Luis Obispo County)

• Certhia americana stewarti

  Haida Gwaii (British Columbia)

• Certhia americana zelotes

  southern Oregon through Cascades and Coast ranges to southern California