Wallcreeper

Wallcreeper
Female in the Piatra Craiului Mountains, Transylvania, Romania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tichodromidae
Genus: Tichodroma
Species:
T. muraria
Binomial name
Tichodroma muraria
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Range of T. muraria (Compiled by: BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2019) 2019.)
  Resident
  Non-breeding
Synonyms
  • Certhia muraria Linnaeus, 1766

The wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) is a small passerine bird found throughout the high mountains of the Palearctic from southern Europe to central China. It is the only extant member of both the genus Tichodroma and the family Tichodromidae.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Tichodroma muraria". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22711234A155489183. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22711234A155489183.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.