Tichodroma muraria
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
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.
In the past, there was some disagreement among ornithologists as to where the wallcreeper belongs in the taxonomic order. Initially, Linnaeus included it in the treecreepers as Certhia muraria, and even when given a separate genus of its own, Tichodroma, by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1811, it was long included in the treecreeper family Certhiidae. More recently, it was placed in its own monotypic family, Tichodromadidae, by Karel Voous in the influential List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species, while other authorities such as Charles Vaurie put it in a monotypic family called Tichodromadinae, as a subfamily of the nuthatch family Sittidae. In either case, it is closely related to the nuthatches; a 2016 phylogenetic study of members in the superfamily Certhioidea suggests it is a sister species to the Sittidae. At least one other species of wallcreeper is known from the fossil record, Tichodroma capeki (Late Miocene... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia | |
| 2 | Picos de Europa National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 3 | Jiuzhaigou National Park | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 4 | Hemis National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Vanoise National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 7 | Langtang National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 8 | Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 9 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 10 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 11 | Aigüestortes National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 12 | Manas National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 13 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alpenzoo Innsbruck | 🇦🇹 Austria |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Wallcreeper sighting in Dehradun on a given day, based on 39 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 189th most-seen of the 280 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Wallcreeper in Dehradun on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Wallcreeper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 3 cities where we can rate Wallcreeper sightings, Dehradun ranks 2nd at under 5%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Kathmandu (Nepal, under 5%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Wallcreeper that you can see in Dehradun (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are White-cheeked Bulbul (about 70%), Indian White-eye (about 60%) and Common Tailorbird (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Wallcreeper is recorded against all the birds logged in Dehradun (39 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
