Eastern Rock Nuthatch

Also known as Sitta tephronota

species of bird

Species

Least Concern

via IUCN

Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Sitta
Image: Sitta tephronota (2).jpg

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taxon rank: species
IUCN conservation status: Least Concern
Commons category: Sitta tephronota
taxon name: Sitta tephronota
Commons gallery: Sitta tephronota
litter size: 5.9
egg incubation period: 13
short name: S. tephronota
taxon common name: Trepador Rupestre Oriental

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Encyclopedic overview

The eastern rock nuthatch (Sitta tephronota) is a species of bird in the nuthatch family Sittidae. It is found in southwest and central Asia, from eastern Turkey east through Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, to northwestern Pakistan. Some authors have used the name Persian nuthatch for the species.

Taxonomy

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eastern Rock Nuthatch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.