The Eurasian nuthatch or wood 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-grey 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. Source: Wikipedia
Citation:
Linnaeus, C 1758
Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 10
1 p.115
Protonym:
Sitta europaea
Type locality:
Europae, Americae; restricted to Sweden by Hartert, 1905, Vogel pal. Fauna, p. 329.
Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/133/mode/1up
Avibase ID:
C0304A8F12F9B347
Avibase ID:
avibase-C0304A8F
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/C0304A8F
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 563018
Geographic range:
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium] ( Sitta europaea [incl. montium]) |
eBird version 1.52: Eurasian Nuthatch (Eurasian) ( Sitta europaea [europaea Group]) [version 2] |
eBird version 1.53: Eurasian Nuthatch (Eurasian) ( Sitta europaea [europaea Group]) [version 2] |
eBird version 1.54: Eurasian Nuthatch (Eurasian) ( Sitta europaea [europaea Group]) [version 2] |
eBird version 1.55: Eurasian Nuthatch (Eurasian) ( Sitta europaea [europaea Group]) [version 2] |
eBird version 2015: Eurasian Nuthatch (Eurasian) ( Sitta europaea [europaea Group]) [version 2] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species (alt)
This taxon is a subspecies of
Sitta [europaea or arctica, incl. montium]
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