Editing Short-toed treecreeper (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
[[File:Cork tree.jpg|thumb|[[Cork oak]] is a preferred nesting tree in Spain]]
The short-toed treecreeper breeds in temperate woodlands across Europe from Portugal to Turkey and Greece, and in north west Africa. It prefers well-grown trees, especially [[oak]] and avoids pure stands of [[conifer]]s. Where it shares its European range with common treecreeper, the latter species tends to be found mainly in coniferous forest and at higher altitudes.<ref name= BWP/>

It is usually found in the lowlands, but breeds locally at up to {{convert|900|m|ft|abbr=off}} in Germany, {{convert|1800|m|ft|abbr=off}} in France and {{convert|1400|m|ft|abbr=off}} in Switzerland. In Turkey and North Africa it is a mountain species.<ref name= Harrap/> The breeding areas have July [[Isotherm (contour line)|isotherm]]s between 17&ndash;18&nbsp;°C and 26&nbsp;°C (63&ndash;64&nbsp;°F and 79&nbsp;°F).<ref name=BWP>{{cite book| editor-last = Snow | editor-first =  David  |editor2-last= Perrins|editor2-first=Christopher M. | title = The Birds of the Western Palearctic concise edition (2 volumes) | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] |year = 1998| location =Oxford | isbn = 0-19-854099-X}} 1411&ndash;1416</ref>

This treecreeper is essentially [[bird migration|non-migratory]] but post-breeding dispersal may lead to vagrancy outside the normal range. It has occurred as a vagrant to England, Sweden, [[Lithuania]] and the [[Balearic Islands]]. Three birds on [[Corsica]] in 1969 appeared to be of the North African subspecies ''C. b. mauritanica''.<ref name= Harrap/>