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La famille des Climactéridae (ou climactéridés) comprend les 7 espèces d'échelets, des passereaux dont l'allure générale rappelle celle des grimpereaux, d'où leur ancien nom de grimpereaux australiens.
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- Climacteridae
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- Climacteridae
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- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
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- barkkryperfamilien
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There are seven species of Australasian treecreeper, the common name of the passerine bird family Climacteridae. They are medium-small, mostly brown birds with patterning on their underparts, and all are endemic to Australia-New Guinea. They superficially resemble, but are not closely related to, the Holarctic treecreepers. The family is one of several families identified by DNA–DNA hybridisation studies to be part of the Australo-Papuan songbird radiation. There is some molecular support for suggesting that their closest relatives are the large lyrebirds.
As their name implies, treecreepers forage for insects and other small creatures living on and under the bark of trees, mostly eucalypts, though several species also hunt on the ground, through leaf-litter, and on fallen timber. Unlike the Holarctic treecreepers they do not use their tail for support when climbing tree trunks, only their feet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Australasian treecreeper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.