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title: "Boomklever"
description: "Sitta europaea — Vogels. The Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea), or simply nuthatch, is a small passerine bird found throughout the Palearctic and in Europe."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/eurasian-nuthatch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Boomklever

> Sitta europaea — Vogels. The Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea), or simply nuthatch, is a small passerine bird found throughout the Palearctic and in Europe.

- Scientific name: *Sitta europaea*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 91543
- Wikidata: [Q156767](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156767)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14824](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14824)

## Names

- en: Eurasian Nuthatch
- de: Kleiber
- es: Trepador Azul
- fr: Sittelle torchepot
- nl: Boomklever
- pt: Trepadeira-azul
- pl: Kowalik zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

RU (37322), DE (8840), GB (6152), FR (3560), AT (3034), ES (2595), CZ (2291), IT (1839), PL (1595), CH (1508), UA (1278), SE (1254)

## Summary

The Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea), or simply nuthatch, is a small passerine bird found throughout the Palearctic and in Europe. Like other nuthatches, it is a short-tailed bird with a long bill, blue-gray upperparts and a black eye-stripe. It is a vocal bird with a repeated loud dwip call. There are more than 20 subspecies in three main groups; birds in the west of the range have orange-buff underparts and a white throat, those in Russia have whitish underparts, and those in the east have a similar appearance to European birds, but lack the white throat.
Its preferred habitat is mature deciduous…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_nuthatch

## Photo

![Boomklever](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eurasian-nuthatch/medium.jpg)

Photo: Charlie Farrell · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106967856

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/eurasian-nuthatch?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).