Hodgson's Treecreeper

Hodgson's treecreeper is a small, fairly drab passerine 12.5 cm long from the southern rim of the Himalaya, found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. It is brownish with lighter and darker streaks above and off-white below and on the eyebrow, browner above than the common treecreeper, with a contrasting rufous rump. It has a long curved bill and long stiff tail feathers that let it creep up vertical tree trunks looking for arthropod prey; its specific distinctness from the common treecreeper was recently validated (Wikipedia, general species account).

It nests in tree crevices, and the typical clutch is four to six reddish-brown blotched, pinkish-white eggs. The song starts with two of the shree calls characteristic of the species and its close relatives, followed by one or a few warbling calls and usually two up- and down-slurring notes; the whole song takes about 2 to 2.5 seconds. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident forest bird with a Moderate range of about 50,300 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).