short-toed treecreeper
certhia brachydactyla latin

For these reasons, the Short-toed Treecreeper is evaluated as Least Concern.

Short-toed Treecreeper tends to prefer deciduous trees and lower altitudes than its relative in these overlap areas.

Other animals which are commonly seen within the grounds are the red squirrel, bank vole, and the Short-toed Treecreeper.

It can be most easily distinguished from the similar Short-toed Treecreeper, which shares much of its European range, by its different song.

The Short-toed Treecreeper was first described by Christian Ludwig Brehm in 1820.

There are five subspecies of Short-toed Treecreeper, which are all very similar and often intergrade in areas where their ranges overlap.

Some records of Citrine Wagtail and Short-toed Treecreeper were accepted only after prolonged consideration.

In Europe, the Eurasian Treecreeper shares much of its range with the Short-toed Treecreeper.

Brown Treecreeper has never been recorded in Europe, but would be difficult to separate from Short-toed Treecreeper, which it much resembles in appearance.

The Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla) is a small passerine bird found in woodlands through much of the warmer regions of Europe and into north Africa.

The Short-toed Treecreeper typically seeks invertebrate food on tree trunks, starting near the tree base and spiralling its way up using its stiff tail feathers for support.

The Short-toed Treecreeper breeds in temperate woodlands across Europe from Portugal to Turkey and Greece, and in north west Africa.

It prefers mature trees, and in most of Europe, where it shares its range with Short-toed Treecreeper, it tends to be found mainly in coniferous forest, especially spruce and fir.

The dense fir forest holds Short-toed Treecreeper, Common Crossbill and Tengmalm's Owl, a rare and very local bird in Turkey, as well as the White-backed Woodpecker.

The Brown Creeper has sometimes been considered to be a subspecies of Eurasian Treecreeper, but has closer affinities to Short-toed Treecreeper, and is normally now treated as a full species.

Short-toed Treecreeper is one of a group of four very similar Holarctic treecreepers, including the closely related North American Brown Creepers, and has five subspecies differing in appearance and song.

In 1960 he found the Dark-eyed Junco, a bird normally found in North America, and in 1968 he spotted the Short-Toed Treecreeper, normally found in continental Europe.

This species is found in woodlands of all kinds, but where it overlaps with the Short-toed Treecreeper in western Europe it is more likely to be found in coniferous forests or at higher altitudes.

Species Seen: Black Woodpecker, Short-toed Treecreeper, Geese (Barnacle, White-fronted and Bean), Shore Larks, Snow Buntings, Smew, Fieldfare, Common Buzzards, Long-eared Owl.

The European Treecreeper has since been found to be a very close relative of the Himalayan Hodgson's Treecreeper, while the Short-toed Treecreeper is probably the sister species of the North American Brown Creeper.

However, it is intermediate in its characteristics between Common Treecreeper and Short-toed Treecreeper, and has sometimes in the past been considered a subspecies of the former, although its closest relative seems to be the latter (Tietze et al., 2006).

A singing treecreeper is usually identifiable, since Short-toed Treecreeper has a distinctive series of evenly spaced notes sounding quite different from the song of Eurasian Treecreeper; however, both species have been known to sing the other's song.

As a small woodland bird with cryptic plumage and a quiet call, the Short-toed Treecreeper is easily overlooked as it hops mouse-like up a vertical trunk, progressing in short hops, using its stiff tail and widely-splayed feet as support.

It is the southeastern representative of the Holarctic lineage of treecreepers, most closely related to its sister species C. familiaris and to the North Atlantic superspecies Short-toed Treecreeper (C. brachydactylata) and American Treecreeper (C. americana).

The Short-toed Treecreeper belongs to the northern group, along with the North American Brown Creeper, C. americana, the Common Treecreeper, C. familaris, of temperate Eurasia, and Hodgson's Treecreeper, C. hodgsoni, from the southern rim of the Himalayas.

The Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla) is a small passerine bird found in woodlands through much of the warmer regions of Europe and into north Africa.