Sitta europaea [incl. montium] (Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium])

Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium]

Sitta europaea [incl. montium] (= Sitta europaea) Linnaeus, C 1758

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

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Sittidae
Genus:
   Sitta
Scientific:
  Sitta europaea

Original description

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 identifiers

Avibase ID:
C0304A8F12F9B347

Avibase ID:
avibase-C0304A8F

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/C0304A8F

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 563018

English:
Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium]
French:
Sittelle torchepot [incl. montium]

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. 2025 (Nov 2025): 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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Other synonyms

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Asturian: Martarinete
Azerbaijani: Adi sitta
Belarusian: Звычайны кавалік
Bulgarian: Горска зидарка, Горска зидарка (Група europaea)
Breton: Ar pokerig-kraoñ
Catalan: Pica-soques blau
Czech: brhlík lesní, brhlík lesní [skupina europaea]
Welsh: Delor y cnau
Danish: Spætmejse, Spætmejse (eurasisk)
German: Kleiber, Kleiber [europaea Gruppe]
Greek: Δεντροτσοπανάκος
English: Eurasian Nuthatch (Eurasian), Eurasian Nuthatch (Western), Wood Nuthatch [incl. montium], Wood Nuthatch [incl. nebulosa]
English (IOC): Eurasian Nuthatch (Western)
Esperanto: sito
Spanish: Trepador Azul, Trepador Azul (grupo europaea)
Spanish (Spain): Trepador Azul, Trepador Azul [Grupo europaea]
Estonian: Puukoristaja
Basque: Garrapoa
Finnish: pähkinänakkeli, pähkinänakkeli (alalaji europaea)
Faroese: Rennisveinur
French: Sittelle torchepot, Sittelle torchepot (Eurasie), Sittelle torchepot [europaea], Sittelle torchepot [incl. montium], Sittelle torchepot [incl. nebulosa]
Frisian: Blauspjocht
Irish: Cnóshnag
Gaelic: Sgoltan
Galician: Gabeador azul
Manx: Scolteyder croiyn
Hebrew: סיטה אירופית
Croatian: Brgljez, Brgljez (subps. Europaea grupa)
Hungarian: Csuszka, Csuszka (Eurázsiai)
Armenian: Սովորական Սիտեղ
Icelandic: Hnotigða
Italian: Picchio muratore
Japanese (romaji): gojū-kara, gojuukara (europaea guru-pu)
Japanese: ゴジュウカラ, ゴジュウカラ (europaea グループ)
Japanese (Kanji): 五十雀
Georgian: ჩვეულებრივი ცოცია
Khakas: Чочылас
Kazakh: Орман кєктекесі
Kazakh (Transliteration): orman kök-tekesi
Korean: 아물동고비(동고비)
Korean (Transliteration): amul-donggobi
Cornish: Terrer know
Scientific: Sitta europaea, Sitta europaea [europaea Group], Sitta europaea [incl. montium], Sitta europaea [incl. nebulosa], Sitta europaea europaea
Luxembourgish: Kuesleefer
Limburgish: Azuurmees
Lithuanian: Bukutis
Latvian: Dzilnītis, Dzilnītis (europaea gr.)
Macedonian: Обичен (Шумски) лазач
Mongolian: Өрнийн тоншголжин
Mongolian (Bichig): ᠦᠷᠣᠨ᠎ᠠ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠲᠣᠩᠰᠢᠭᠣᠯᠵᠢᠨ
Mongolian (Cyrillic, Inner Mongolia): Модон шогшоо
Mongolian (Transliteration): modoŋ shogshoo
Dutch: Boomklever, Boomklever (Euraziatisch)
Norwegian: Spettmeis, spettmeis (europaea gr.)
Polish: kowalik (gr. europaea), kowalik (zwyczajny)
Pinyin: chá-fù shī
Portuguese: Trepadeira-azul
Portuguese (Portugal): Trepadeira-azul, Trepadeira-azul [grupo europaea]
Romanian: Țiclean
Romance (Other): Pitgarel
Russian: Обыкновенный поползень [группа europaea], Поползень
Scots: Sgoltan
Slovak: brhlík obyčajný
Slovenian: brglez
Albanian: Zvarritësi i zakonshëm
Serbian: Brgljez (evropska podvrsta), brgljez puzavac
Swedish: Nötväcka
Turkish: Sıvacı [europaea Grubu], Sıvacı kuşu
Tuvinian: Дүлей-көк
Ukrainian: Повзик, Повзик [група europaea]
Vietnamese: Trèo cây đít hung
Chinese: 普通䴓, 普通䴓（欧亚）
Chinese (Traditional): 普通鳾, 茶腹鳾(歐亞)
Chinese (Taiwan, Traditional): 茶腹鳾
Chinese (Taiwan): 茶腹