Bar-tailed Treecreeper - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies C. h. yunnanensis
Photo © by paux
Tangjiahe Nature Resterve, Sichuan, China, May 2015

Certhia himalayana

Identification

14 cm (5½ in)

Dark barring on tail
White throat
Whitish or dirty greyish-buff underparts
Long bill

Distribution

Nominate Subspecies
Photo © by Alok Tewari
District Almora, Uttarakhand, Altitude 5500-6000 feet above MSL, India, 16 October 2016

Asia:
Asia: Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Burma

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 4 subspecies^[1]:

C. h. taeniura:

Central Asia and Afghanistan (north of the Hindu Kush)

C. h. himalayana:

Eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan and Himalayas (east to central Nepal)

C. h. yunnanensis:

South-western China and adjacent Burma

C. h. ripponi:

Western Burma (Mount Victoria)

Habitat

Boreal and temperate forests. Also well wooded areas in winter.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of insects, spiders and small invertebrates.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved January 2015)

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2023) Bar-tailed Treecreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 5 December 2023 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bar-tailed_Treecreeper

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