Kashmir Nuthatch

The Kashmir nuthatch is 14 cm long, with mostly grey upperparts, reddish underparts and a pale throat and chin. It is found in the northernmost regions of the Indian subcontinent, primarily the mid-altitudes of the Himalaya, in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, in humid montane forest at 1,800 to 3,350 m. The global population has not been quantified, but it is described as common in eastern Afghanistan and north-western India and fairly common in Nepal (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account gives no diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 treats it as a Western Himalayan endemic and rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident of forest and plantation with a Restricted range of about 14,600 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).