Eurasian Nuthatch

Sitta europaea

The Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch, 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. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 1,288,655 times across 55 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 23°C (typically 18 to 27°C, from 26 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Europe ranged from 50°N in March to 61°N in November, about 1,200 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.