Eurasian Nuthatch
Sitta europaea
- Family
- Nuthatches (Sittidae)
- Order
- Passeriformes
Overview
The Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea), 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 from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- China
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iran
- Iraq
- Italy
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Eurasian nuthatch
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.

