Bar-tailed Treecreeper Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Actinodura egertoni
Family : Leiothrichidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Bar-tailed Treecreeper is a small, brown bird with a prominent supercilium, a long, forked and barred tail, and a long, down-curved bill (length 12 cm, weight 9 g, wing 7 cm, bill 1.1 cm, tarsus 1.5 cm, tail 6.5 cm). It has pale grey-brown upperparts mottled and streaked with brown. Its underparts are pale greyish-buff except for its white chin and throat, and smoky flanks. It has a long, white supercilium and a dark eye-stripe. Two pale wing-bars show on its closed wing. Its long, pointed tail-feathers are pale brown and barred with darker brown. It has brown irises and a thin down-curved bicoloured bill: the upper mandible is dark brown, the lower mandible is pale flesh and the tip is brownish. Its legs and feet are brown to fleshy-brown. The male and the female look alike. It feeds on tiny insects and larvae. It breeds in April-June in the Himalayas. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Phylloscopus xanthoschistos
(Slaty‑bellied Tesia) -
Pomatorhinus mcclellandi
(Grey‑throated Babbler) -
Locustella thoracica
(Spotted Grasshopper-warbler) -
Locustella certhiola
(Pallas's Grasshopper-warbler) -
Phylloscopus whistleri
(Whistler’s Warbler) -
Heterophasia picaoides
(Rusty-fronted Barwing) -
Phylloscopus trochiloides
(Pale-legged Leaf-warbler) -
Acrocephalus dumetorum
(Blyth's Reed-warbler) -
Phylloscopus affinis
(Tickell's Leaf-warbler) -
Phylloscopus tenellipes
(Large‑billed Leaf-warbler)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Markus Lilje (www.inaturalist.org/people/Markus Lilje ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Ramit Singalmore information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Markus Lilje (www.inaturalist.org/people/Markus Lilje ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Ramit Singalmore information, please contact us.