Western Rock Nuthatch

When to see the Western Rock Nuthatch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Western Rock Nuthatch

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Serbia.

About the Western Rock Nuthatch

The western rock nuthatch is a small passerine bird which breeds from Croatia east through Greece and Turkey to Iran. This nuthatch is largely resident apart from some post-breeding dispersal. The eastern rock nuthatch Sitta tephronota is a separate species, which occurs further east in south-central Asia.

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Easily confused with

White-tailed NuthatchSitta himalayensisThe white-tailed nuthatch is a species of bird in the family Sittidae. Indian NuthatchSitta castaneaThe Indian nuthatch is a species of bird in the family Sittidae. Chestnut-vented NuthatchSitta nagaensisThe range of the chestnut-vented nuthatch overlaps with that of the Burmese nuthatch (S. neglecta).