#1244 · 🐦 birds
Krüper's Nuthatch
🇳🇱 Turkse Boomklever ·Sitta krueperi
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ульяна Лалак · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Frank Vassen · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © egorbirder · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Andrew Bazdyrev · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Dave Brown · CC0
- 6. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Graham Gavaghan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Шальнов Кирилл · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Krüper's nuthatch ( Sitta krueperi ) is a small nuthatch. The name commemorates the German naturalist Theodor Johannes Krüper.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 337 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 1 g.
- Scientifically named by August von Pelzeln in 1863 (163 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Krüper's Nuthatch
- Nederlands
- Turkse Boomklever
- scientific name
- Sitta krueperi
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Sittidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 91
- sightings worldwide
- 337
- GBIF records in NL
- 18
- weight
- 1.4 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1863 by August von Pelzeln
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Sittidae
#0605 📷 10Eurasian Nuthatch
🇳🇱 Boomklever
Sitta europaea
LC 👀 776 in NL
#1272 📷 10White-breasted Nuthatch
🇳🇱 Witborstboomklever
Sitta carolinensis
LC 🌍 119.2k seen
#1061 📷 8Red-breasted Nuthatch
🇳🇱 Canadese Boomklever
Sitta canadensis
LC 🌍 57.6k seen
#1201 📷 9Western Rock Nuthatch
🇳🇱 Rotsklever
Sitta neumayer
LC 🌍 1.6k seen
#1248 📷 10Corsican Nuthatch
🇳🇱 Corsicaanse Boomklever
Sitta whiteheadi
VU 🌍 183 seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 14814, Wikidata Q851556, GBIF 2484880, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.