Fact #13 - The Treecreeper

This little fluffy-looking character moves upwards on the tree in a jerky, furtive way in a similar way to that of a mouse on the ground. This style of movement gave rise to its common name of ‘tree mouse’ in parts of the UK. The name treecreeper only came into general use in the nineteenth century and replaced the older terms ‘creeper’ or ‘common creeper’. Its Irish name, snag, also owes its origins to words like creeping and crawling.