Treecreeper (Eurasian Treecreeper)
Certhia familiaris
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Distribution Britain 2,120 (-7.3%) Ireland 567 (-20.1%)
Numbers breeding: Britain 200,000 Ireland 45,000 European status: 3,000,000 (8% in Britain and Ireland =5) British population trend: apparently stable (+13% CBC){-2%} How likely are you to record it? 558 squares (12.4%) Ranked 59 [61] |
Treecreepers spread northwards in Scotland during the 19th century and reached North-west Sutherland a few years later. They bred on the Western Isles for a few years in the 1960s and 1970s and again in the 1990s; however they are not known to have bred on Orkney or Shetland. In Ireland they spread in Western Mayo and Connemara fairly recently but there was a considerable loss between the two Breeding Atlases from all over Ireland — there were also losses in Britain. As a very small resident bird they are very vulnerable to cold winter weather. The CBC has fluctuated about a fairly steady mean following the recovery from the 1962/63 winter but, recently, may have increased slightly. Still vulnerable to winter cold but otherwise set fair.
From
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State of the Nations Birds
Copyright © 2000 by Chris Mead