Where to see creepers?
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Treecreeper
| Common treecreeper |
Porr
|
Certhia familiaris |
Only very rarely we see them moving about on the ground or in the finer twigs of trees. The number in winter is estimated at about 150 000 to 300 000 birds. Mostly the treecreeper is a sedentary bird.
In winter it keeps company with tits and it may be observed in parks; its feeding habits are very individual. It settles into a tree crown and then works its way upwards. Moving in spirals all bark cracks and all hiding places in the lichens on the trunk are carefully gone over for wintering invertebrates and insects. When one tree has been checked, it flies to the next trunk and all is repeated, with the same thoroughness. It can be seen in very varying kinds of forests.
Aided by the long, curved beak the operations seem quite successful. Moving along the tree trunks it supports itself in woodpecker fashion with the tail that is stiff and with a sharp tip. The plumage on the back is brown, with yellowish and white spots, the eyebrow streak is white as are the underparts. It is usually easy to identify it.
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