#0605 · 🐦 birds

Eurasian Nuthatch

🇳🇱 Boomklever ·Sitta europaea

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch ( Sitta europaea ) is a small passerine bird found throughout temperate Asia and in Europe, where its name is the nuthatch . 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...

base stats

NL sightings 776iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 93,787iNaturalist observations
weight 23 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).