Birds of India - The New Synopsis

A complete checklist of bird species and subspecies found in India

Passeriformes (Perching Birds)

Tichodromidae (Wallcreeper)

• Tichodroma Illiger, 1811 Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium: additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica p.210 Certhia muraria Linnaeus, 1766; Type by monotypy
  • 1046. Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria (Linnaeus, 1766)
    Original Description: Certhia muraria Linnaeus, 1766 Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.184
    IUCN: Least Concern. SoIB: High. WLPA: Schedule-II.
    • 1046a. Tichodroma muraria nepalensis Bonaparte, 1850 [HB#1839]
      Original Description: Tichodroma nepalensis Bonaparte, 1850 Conspectus generum avium 1 p.225
      Distribution: Along the Himalaya from Gilgit, Ladakh, Kashmir, through Jammu, Himachal, Uttarakhand, N Bengal, Sikkim, and Arunachal as well as adjacent N Assam. Non-breeding: At times descending to adjacent foothills and plains till Delhi, Rajasthan, S W Bengal as well as some NE hill states like Nagaland and Meghalaya.
      Specimens: BNHS, NHMUK, UMMZ, FMNH, MCZ, ROM, USNM, YPM
      Notes: See Vyas (2019, IB Monograph 1: 101) for reports around Delhi.