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title: "Pluchekapboomklever"
description: "Sitta frontalis — Vogels. The velvet-fronted nuthatch (Sitta frontalis) is a small passerine bird in the nuthatch family Sittidae found in southern Asia, from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka ‍and Bangladesh east to southwestern China and Indonesia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/velvet-fronted-nuthatch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pluchekapboomklever

> Sitta frontalis — Vogels. The velvet-fronted nuthatch (Sitta frontalis) is a small passerine bird in the nuthatch family Sittidae found in southern Asia, from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka ‍and Bangladesh east to southwestern China and Indonesia.

- Scientific name: *Sitta frontalis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 2458
- Wikidata: [Q73714](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73714)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14813](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14813)

## Names

- en: Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
- de: Samtstirnkleiber
- es: Trepador piquirrojo
- fr: Sittelle veloutée
- nl: Pluchekapboomklever
- pl: Kowalik krasnodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

IN (682), HK (490), MY (307), TH (273), ID (143), CN (125), LK (125), NP (55), VN (47), KH (20), BD (12), PH (8)

## Summary

The velvet-fronted nuthatch (Sitta frontalis) is a small passerine bird in the nuthatch family Sittidae found in southern Asia, from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka ‍and Bangladesh east to southwestern China and Indonesia. Like other nuthatches, it feeds on insects in the bark of trees, foraging on the trunks and branches and their strongly clawed toes allow them to climb down tree trunks or move on the undersides of horizontal branches. They are found in forests with good tree cover and are often found along with other species in mixed-species foraging flocks. Adult males can be told apart by the black stripe that runs behind…

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

## Photo

![Pluchekapboomklever](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/velvet-fronted-nuthatch/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/225595402

## Machine access

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