Bar-tailed Treecreeper - BirdForum Opus

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

Subspecies himalayana
Photo by Alok Tewari
Dist. Almora, Uttarakhand, Alt. 5500-6000 ft above MSL, India, 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

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved January 2015)
4. Wikipedia

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Bar-tailed Treecreeper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bar-tailed_Treecreeper

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