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short-toed treecreeper Germany/Czech Republic (1 Viewer)

GarethHawkes

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Hi all,

I have been trying to work out if treecreepers I saw in Germany and Czech Republic were short toed. I know that it is very difficult to differentiate without sounds, etc. But do the locations help as they were all semi-urban.

Tiergarten, in central Berlin.
Great Garden, Central Dresden
Pillnitz
Prague, in some trees alongside Corinthia Hotel.

I tried some photographs but they didn't turn out very well. I have included some as they might just help.

First one was in Pillnitz, near Dresden, in the gardens ofthe castle
The other 3 were of the bird in Prague.

Regards


Gareth
 

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Whitish tips on the primaries (although not really the primary spacing in bird 1), "spiky-edged" buff wing stripe and the short hind-claw point to Short-toed. It's also the more usual "town treecreeper" as far as I've found, but that would be a dangerous means of i.d.!
 
If no 2 and 4 were my photos, they would be stored as STT, both length of claw and length of bill seems to fit, and also the wing pattern that I can see. If image three is same bird, then it would be the same. Image one I am on the fence.

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