White-throated Treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea) [XC591089]
by Simon Elliott from Bilpin, Hawkesbury City Council, New South Wales, Australia (song)
White-throated Treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea) [XC635518]
by Ariane Allen from Springbrook National Park, Australia (uncertain)
Breeding Season (Guide)
Mainly late August - November.
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Nest
In a hollow of a live tree, composed of bark, grass and fur, usually at a consirable height.
Eggs (Guide)
2 or 3, rarely 4; white to creamy white, sparingly dotted with dark red-brown or purplish-black, mostly at the larger end; oval; about 22 x 17 mm. Incubation: 22 - 23 days; by female.
Young
Altricial. Fledge in about 26 days.
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Papuan Treecreeper (Cormobates placens), and has in the past been treated as conspecific. Subspecies minor has in the past been treated as a separate species, but birds intermediate between it and nominate subspecies occur in south-eastern Queensland.
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
leucophaea (Latham, 1801) - South-eastern Australia from central eastern New South Wales, south and south-west to south-eastern SA and inland to upper watersheds of the Murray - Darling Basin.
grisescens (Mathews, 1912) - Mt Lofty Ranges, SA.
metastasis Schodde, 1989 - North-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Qld, north to the Dawson - Mackenzie Basin.
intermedia (Boles and Longmore, 1984) - Eastern Queensland (Clarke and Connors Ranges).
minor (Ramsay, EP, 1891) - North-eastern Qld.
Similar Species
Red-browed Treecreeper (Climacteris erythrops) which has a smaller white area on the throat, and a rich chestnut eyebrow and eyepatch and Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) which lacks the obvious white throat and has a white eyebrow.
Compare Images
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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