as single type of the Kleiber lives in means and Southern Europe's (Pyrenees, Alps, Nordapenninen, Karpaten, Balkans) higher and colder mountain-regions the wall-runner and in the same widths also Asia's mountain ranges until North-China (Himalaya and osttibetische mountains between 1000 m and 5000 m of height).
Way of life Here, it is to be found as a loner everywhere, only during the incubation also as pair or small family. Otherwise, each invader immediately is driven away with beak-clatter and through raids from the precinct.
Wall-runners are stand-birds predominantly, only as an exception they stray far in the lowlands (singles-findings in England and Finland) in the winter. The hardness of the winter drives however many birds into more deeply situated areas. So, they also appear in cities (Z) regularly in the late-night-year. B. Vienna, where it itself at old and high buildings with steep and big roofs, towers or walls etc.. detain.
How from below the tree-runner at the trees, so the wall-runner Felswände and walls fly in from below. it has an easy, fluttering flight. Sometimes, it works butterfly-nicely ("butterfly-bird") with its irregular flaps; this impression is reinforced by the rosy wing-deck-feathers. Also the short, clattering flaps, that rather remind of the flight of a bat, are characteristic. If however, it down-shoots steeply with tightened wings at the rock-wall, it acts as a robbery-bird.
The wall-runner is a typical rock-bird. its short tail with its soft feathers is not suitable for supporting. Nevertheless, it hurries the sheerest walls, with what it opens the wings abruptly regularly, with astonishing speed up. Above arrived, it plunges into steep flight down in order to rise at another wall. In the joints and crannies of the rock, it catches insects, spiders and centipedes, whom it extracts long and probe-good beak with it. it catches escaping bugs and spiders with ease also out of the air.
The wall-runner holds its night-silence in a protected rock or wall-column. Here, it is rather long, until that rises very deep temperatures again also in the summer. Incidentally, it lies with it like a brooding bird on the stomach.
Reproduction Also as Niststätte, a hole or a column are chosen in high rock-walls; only as an exception, the walls of old buildings (Z) serve for this. B. Close Neuschwanstein. The nest is rather extensive and is manufactured only by the female from fine roots, moss, animal-hairs and plant-wool. If the female has erbrütet (end of May of June) the 4-5 eggs, so the boys still remain in the nest 3-4 weeks. Here, they are looked after by both parents.
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