Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Eurasian Nuthatch
Sitta europaea
- umum
- 30 km/h
- Pemula
- Risiko rendah
The only European bird that walks headfirst down tree trunks. Wedges nuts in bark and hammers them open.
- Populasi
- Roughly 46–228 million mature individuals globally, within a 10M-500M range; European breeding population estimated at roughly 21–57 million individuals.
- Habitat
- Mature deciduous and mixed woodland with large old trees (favoring oak), also found in coniferous forest, parkland, gardens, and old orchards with suitable nesting/foraging trees.
- Fakta menarik
- The Eurasian Nuthatch is one of the few birds that can forage climbing head-first down tree trunks as well as up them, and females plaster the entrance of the nest hole with mud to shrink the opening and keep out predators and competitors.
- Sebaran
- Widespread across the Palearctic from Great Britain and western Europe across most of continental Europe and temperate Asia to Japan and northern China; absent from Ireland and the far north of Scandinavia/Russia.
- Makanan
- Primarily insects and other invertebrates (beetles, caterpillars, spiders) gleaned from bark in spring/summer; switches to nuts and seeds (hazelnuts, beech mast, acorns, conifer seeds) in autumn/winter, wedging them into bark crevices and hammering them open with the bill; also caches food year-round and visits bird feeders/tables (fat, cheese, bread).
- Ukuran
- 0,14 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,245 m
- Masa hidup
- 2 tahun
