The Brown Creeper is a small forest bird whose bark-like plumage helps it blend in as it searches along tree trunks.
Its dark brown upperparts are streaked with white, while the underside is mostly pale. A long, curved bill probes bark crevices, and stiff tail feathers brace the bird against the trunk as it climbs.
It searches large tree trunks from the base upward, sometimes spiraling around them, for spiders and other small arthropods. At the top, it flies to another trunk and starts again.
It nests between the trunk and loose bark of a dead or dying tree. The female lays 3–7 eggs and incubates them.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.