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Short-toed Treecreeper
Certhia brachydactyla · Family Certhiidae
Certhia brachydactyla
Family Certhiidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Certhiidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,834,351
- Countries and territories with records
- 60
About this species
This species has 1,834,351 occurrence records from 60 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the Netherlands (32.4%), France (22.3%), Spain (16.3%), Germany (8.2%) and Belgium (6.2%); together they account for 85.4% of the total. In the Netherlands, this species accounts for 0.9% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Certhia brachydactyla combines the genus name Certhia with the species epithet brachydactyla. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Certhia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Certhia americana, Certhia familiaris and Certhia himalayana.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 10 species of the family Certhiidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Certhia americana. Its record count is 3 times the family average (606,165). The family Certhiidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.