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From: misan@ra.abo.fi (Annika Forsten DC)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Outdoor Musings
Message-ID: <MISAN.91Feb14152933@ra.abo.fi>
Date: 14 Feb 91 13:29:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: edm@vrdxhq.verdix.com's message of 11 Feb 91 13:30:11 GMT

In article <46369@vrdxhq.verdix.com> edm@vrdxhq.verdix.com (Ed Matthews) writes:


>   Got to see one of my favorite birds this weekend, Certhia familiaris, the
>   Brown Creeper.  They are hard to spot and uncommon as well.  Checking my
>   logs, I saw only one last year, in Whitchurch, Hampshire, England.  Makes
>   me wonder why the familiaris.

Well, Linne named many birds in the 18th century. And in Sweden the Brown
Creeper (or Treecreeper as it is called over here) is quite common.

The Short-toed Treecreeper is a rarity in Scandinavia, but is common in
Western Europe. It is called Certhia brachydactyla.

annika forsten, finland