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Meanings of tree creeper in English

Any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers.

Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet.

Usage of tree creeper in English
1
My attention was drawn upward by a tree creeper spiralling an oak trunk through dark branches, up to where the wind shunted clouds about.
The Guardian
2
When she awoke at daybreak to the tittering of tree creepers, Dimitri, both horses, and the rings on her fingers were gone.
Hemlock Grove