Eurasian Nuthatch
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Nuthatches

Eurasian Nuthatch

Sitta europaea

LCLeast Concern
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.

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Range and habitat

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.