Social Organisation and Feeding Behaviour
Gregarious with a complex social structure between individuals and breeding groups, the species maintains a territory which sometimes overlaps with other Brown Treecreeper groups. Usually observed in pairs or a small group of up to eight individuals, incursions by other groups of Brown Treecreeper are often tolerated by residents of the same species.
Roosting nocturnally and solitarily, the Brown Treecreeper forages during the day on the ground and on tree surfaces in small groups or pairs, feeding mainly on ants, beetles and insect larvae. While occasionally feeding on nectar, the Brown Treecreeper more often probes fissures, cracks and hollows of trees, gleaning and probing as it hops along logs or spirals up rough barked trees, spending more time foraging on the ground if a resident of an arid territory.
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