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