Distribution and Habitat
The Short-toed Treecreeper breeds in temperate woodlands across Europe from Portugal to Turkey and Greece, and in north west Africa. It prefers well-grown trees, especially oak and avoids pure stands of conifers. Where it shares its European range with Common Treecreeper, the latter species tends to be found mainly in coniferous forest and at higher altitudes.
It is usually found in the lowlands, but breeds locally at up to 900 metres (2950 ft) in Germany, 1800 metres (5900 ft) France and 1400 metres (4590 ft) in Switzerland. In Turkey and North Africa it is a mountain species. The breeding areas have July isotherms between 17–18 oC and 26 oC (63–64 oF and 79 oF).
This treecreeper is essentially non-migratory but post-breeding dispersal may lead to vagrancy outside the normal range. It has occurred as a vagrant to England, Sweden, Lithuania and the Balearic Islands. Three birds on Corsica in 1969 appeared to be of the North African subspecies C. b. mauritanica.
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