Eurasian Nuthatch
Sitta europaea
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 65,630
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch, or simply nuthatch, is a small passerine bird found throughout the Palearctic and in Europe. Like other nuthatches, it is a short-tailed bird with a long bill, blue-gray upperparts and a black eye-stripe. It is a vocal bird with a repeated loud dwip call. There are more than 20 subspecies in three main groups; birds in the west of the range have orange-buff underparts and a white throat, those in Russia have whitish underparts, and those in the east have a similar appearance to European birds, but lack the white throat.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Eurasian nuthatch”.