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Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks October · Treecreepers · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Short-toed Treecreeper: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Short-toed Treecreeper has been recorded in 8 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in October.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SZ39Hampshire, England12025unverified
SS49Swansea, Wales12024unverified
TR01Kent, England302001 to 2023unverified
SN97Powys, Wales42018unverified
TV59East Sussex, England12015unverified
TR23Kent, England12012unverified
TM23Suffolk, England392011unverified
TM00Essex, England112005unverified

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