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🦉 The Eurasian treecreeper or common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)

• Certhia (Greek): kerthios - a small bird crawling through the trees, mentioned by Aristotle
• familiaris (lat.): common, easily recognizable

This silent and inconspicuous bird, with its rounded shape and tweezers-like bill, is insectivorous, as you might guess. However, with the arrival of autumn, it doesn't fly away to warmer climates or even to warmer regions. It remains where it lives, migrating through forests, usually in the company of other bird species, forming mixed feeding groups. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-species_foraging_flock)

Winter is a difficult time for them, as unlike other birds, their beaks are unable to crack and shell nuts and large seeds. Therefore, they actively search for insects under tree bark crevices and also eat small seeds from trees such as birch.