| Sikkim treecreeper | |
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| from Neora Valley National Park, West Bengal, India | |
| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Certhiidae |
| Genus: | Certhia |
| Species: | C. discolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Certhia discolor Blyth, 1845 | |
The Sikkim treecreeper (Certhia discolor) is a species of bird in the treecreeper family.
It is found in Bhutan, Nepal and Northeast India.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It inhabits broadleaf and mixed forests, where it usually forages at the middle and upper levels.
The form C. d. manipurensis of southern Manipur and southwestern Burma has a rich cinnamon throat and breast, and molecular evidence and is usually now treated as a separate species, the Hume's treecreeper, C. manipurensis Hume, 1850.
Notes
- BirdLife International (2016). "Certhia discolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22735065A95100614. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22735065A95100614.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- "Sikkim Treecreeper - eBird". ebird.org. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- Tietze, Dieter Thomas; Martens, Jochen & Sun, Yue-Hua (2006): Molecular phylogeny of treecreepers (Certhia) detects hidden diversity. Ibis 148(3): 477-488 doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00547.x (HTML abstract)
References
- Harrap and Quinn, Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers ISBN 0-7136-3964-4
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Certhia discolor | |