Short-toed Treecreeper
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Certhia brachydactyla
Rare vagrants from Europe with 30 records for Britain from September-April, can be overlooked from Eurasian Treecreeper.
Breeds across South Western Europe.
They have a dull grey-brown upperparts intricately patterned with black, buff and white, a weak off-white supercilium and dingy underparts contrasting with the white throat.
The sexes are similar, but Juveniles have whitish underparts, sometimes with a buff belly.
The call of this species is a repeated shrill tyt...tyt tyt-tyt and the song of the nominate subspecies is an evenly spaced sequence of notes teet-teet-teet-e-roi-tiit.