Eurasian nuthatch: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Eurasian nuthatch lives – recorded in 47 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Sitta europaea
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	47 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	2.25 g (birth weight); 23 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Sittidae

Where does the Eurasian nuthatch live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Eurasian nuthatch in 47 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains, Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is an Eurasian nuthatch?

Wikidata records the following for the Eurasian nuthatch: mass 2.25 g (birth weight); 23 g (adult weight).

Is the Eurasian nuthatch endangered?

The Eurasian nuthatch’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Eurasian nuthatch?

The Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Sittidae, genus Sitta. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Eurasian nuthatch

The Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea), or simply nuthatch, is a small passerine bird found throughout the Palearctic and in Eurasia. 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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Eurasian nuthatch (revision 1378637020), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q156767 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).