Tichodroma muraria
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
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 Royal Manas National Park on a given day, based on 31 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 256th most-seen of the 388 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Wallcreeper in Royal Manas National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–July, October and December–January, the lowest months. That is one of Royal Manas National Park's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain against 930 mm in July. August and September have too few records to rate.
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.
9th of 13
Of the 13 parks where we can rate Wallcreeper sightings, Royal Manas National Park ranks 9th at under 5%. The best odds are in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (Mongolia, about 40%), Picos de Europa National Park (Spain, about 10%) and Jiuzhaigou National Park (China, about 10%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Wallcreeper that you can see in Royal Manas National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Scarlet Minivet (about 60%), Streaked Spiderhunter (about 60%) and Bronzed Drongo (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 Royal Manas National Park (31 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
