White-cheeked Nuthatch

The white-cheeked nuthatch is 13 cm long, with white cheeks, chin, throat and underparts and mostly dark grey upperparts. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, in boreal and temperate forests (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 forest bird that eats invertebrates, with a Moderate range of about 47,300 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).