Passeriformes

Wallcreeper (Tichodromidae)

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• Medium-sized passerine with long, slightly decurved bill, long, broad and rounded wings, and large feet; strikingly coloured in crimson and black.
• Southern Europe and south-central and southern Asia.
• Mountains, rocky habitats, cliffs, boulder-strewn slopes and shady gorges.
• 1 genus, 1 species, 2 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.