Bird school

• Brambling
• Blue tit
• Bullfinch
• Blackbird
• Barn swallow
• Bohemian waxwing
• Black woodpecker
• Black redstart
• Blackcap
• Chaffinch
• Chiffchaff
• Crow
• Coal tit
• Crested tit
• Common swift
• Common treecreeper
• Dunnock
• Fieldfare
• Greenfinch
• Goldfinch
• Greater woodpecker
• Garden warbler
• Great tit
• Green woodpecker
• House martin
• House sparrow
• Hawfinch
• Jackdaw
• Linnet
• Long-tailed tit
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser spotted woodpecker
• Marsh tit
• Magpie
• Mistle thrush
• Nightingale
• Nuthatch
• Pheasant
• Pied flycatcher
• Redpoll
• Rook
• Redstart
• Robin
• Spotted flycatcher
• Siskin
• Starling
• Song thrush
• Yellowhammer
• Winter wren
• Willow
• Tree sparrow
• Wood pigeon
• White wagtail
• Willow tit
• Whitethroat

The common treecreeper

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The male

Appears to be a little mouse that runs jerkily up the tree trunk. It has an amusing way of never crawling downwards. Instead, it will start over again from the foot of the tree and zig zag in a spiral up the trunk.

Appearance
The back has the colour of a piece of bark; the belly is like bone china, the beak narrow and arched.

Similar bird
The only species with a patterned brown back and white belly that crawls up tree trunks.

Sounds and song
The call is thin and repetitive, and song has a beautiful falling its tone.

Food and bird tables
Rarely seen at the bird table.
Will eat mostly insects and spiders which it picks out of chinks in bark. Will eat fir tree seeds in the winter which it swallows whole as the beak isn’t strong enough to crack seeds.

The nest and hollows
Likes to nest in hollows if they have the right shape. The nest is normally placed behind a loose piece of bark. Will also breed in species-specific hollows.