Eastern Rock Nuthatch
Sitta tephronota
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The eastern rock nuthatch is a species of bird in the nuthatch family Sittidae. It is found in southwest and central Asia, from eastern Turkey east through Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, to northwestern Pakistan. Some authors have used the name Persian nuthatch for the species.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sittidae
- Genus
- Sitta