Climacteris
Genus of birds
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- Climacteris species have black, slightly downcurved bills.
- They have a rusty chest stripe in the female. (In Cormobates the female is marked on the face.)
- They have simple vocal repertoires that are the same for both sexes.
- They lay heavily marked pinkish eggs (Simpson and Day 1999).
- They are cooperative breeders; male offspring of previous broods and sometimes other individuals help breeding pairs (Doerr, 2003).
It contains the following species:
The Australian author G. M. Mathews published new generic names in 1912, based on characteristics that distinguished two species from this genus,
- Whitlocka, to describe the black-tailed northwestern species, Climacteris melanurus. The generic epithet honoured the ornithologist F. Lawson Whitlock.
- Neoclima, assigning the species Climacteris picumnus, brown treecreeper, of Temminck as the type.
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