Afghanistan (B) (NB), Albania (B), Andorra (B) (NB), Armenia (B), Austria (B) (NB), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (NB), China (mainland), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), Cyprus (NB), France (B) (NB), Georgia (B) (NB), Germany (B) (NB), Greece (B) (NB), Hungary (NB), India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (NB), Israel, Italy (B) (NB), Kazakhstan (B), Kyrgyzstan (B), Liechtenstein (B) (NB), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Mongolia (B), Montenegro (B) (NB), Nepal, Pakistan, Poland (B), Portugal (NB), Romania (B) (NB), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B) (NB), Russia (European) (B), Serbia (B) (NB), Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B) (NB), Slovenia (B) (NB), Spain (B) (NB), Switzerland (B) (NB), Tajikistan (B), Turkey (B) (NB), Turkmenistan (B), Ukraine (B), Uzbekistan (B).
Vagrant to Algeria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom.
From Europe through Asia.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 250,000 - 1,200,000 (2010).
Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) [XC569271]
by Stanislas Wroza from Le Reposoir, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, France (song)
Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) [XC698258]
by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from Bunker (near \u00dcr\u00f6m), Budapest, Budapest, Hungary (song)
Nest
Composed of roots, grass and moss, lined with wood and hair, in a rock crevice.
Subspecies
Sometimes treated in a subfamily of the nuthatch family (Sittidae), but differs distinctly in various morphological features and also in several aspects of behaviour. Geographical variation only slight. Subspecies nepalensis considered insufficiently differentiated by some authors, who treat species as monotypic.
Other proposed subspecies are longirostra (mountains of Iran) and ognewi (Tashkent, in Uzbekistan), synonymized with nominate and nepalensis, respectively.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
muraria (Linnaeus, 1766) - Breeds in mountains of southern and eastern Europe (Spain and southern France east, including Corsica, to Italy, Balkans, Caucasus, southern and eastern Turkey) east to northern and western Iran (Zagros Mts, Elburz Mts).
nepalensis Bonaparte, 1850 - Mountains from Turkmenistan and eastern Iran (Kerman and Khorasan) east to Kazakhstan (Tien Shan), western Mongolia (Mongolian Altai, Gobian Altai) and, in south, to Himalayas and north, central and eastern China (northern and eastern Tibetan Plateau east, discontinuously, to Hebei and western Liaoning, and to Yunnan).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet