Description:

A smaller treecreeper, with very defined and clear features and coloration. From Bar-tailed by shorter, less downcurved bill, uniform (unbarred) tail, and more prominent buff banding across wing. Whitish throat and breast, dull brown tail, and more pronounced white supercilium.

Distribution:

Locally common resident in parts of Ghizer, Nagar, Gilgit, Astore and Diamer districts. Found in high-altitude coniferous woodland, often mixed birch or occasionally oak, sometimes in pure birch forest. In summer at 2700-3300m.

Behavior:

Forages on trees in typical treecreeper manner, work upwards in jerky hops, spiraling around trunk, then flies to bottom of another tree and repeats process; recorded as foraging also on moss-covered rocks. Food mainly consists of small arthropods, insects, spiders and, in winter, also some seeds (especially pine and spruce).

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Hodgson's Treecreeper in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Hodgson's Treecreeper

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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