Eurasian Nuthatch
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Sitta europaea
Fairly common residents with 140,000 breeding pairs in Britain & are absent from Ireland.
Also breeds in Central Scandinavia, Morocco & Europe.
They have has blue-grey upperparts, a black eye-stripe and whitish throat and underparts.
The flanks and lower belly are orange-red, mottled with white on the undertail.
The calls are frequently, usually with a loud, sharp dwip normally repeated twice, sometimes more often if excited.
It has a shrill sirrrr or tsi-si-si alarm call, and a thin tsit pre-flight call.
The song is a slow whistled pee-pee-pee with many variants, including a faster version, and may be intermingled with the call.