The tree creeper is a self-effacing bird. Its life is spent climbing with marvellous ease the vertical trunks of woodland trees on its hunt for insect food. Its claws are long and strong, and its tail is pressed against the bark as an aid to its climbing. The creeper can run up a tree a good deal more easily than a man can run across the street. When it has hunted one tree to satisfaction it flies down to the foot of the tree next to it and searches it too with thoroughness.
Gordon/Birds, 1938
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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