Brown-headed Nuthatch
Sitta pusillaLatham, J, 1790
English (US) Brown-headed Nuthatch
The Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Sittidae (Nuthatches) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: pine forest of southeastern USARange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Sitta pusilla
- Family
- Sittidae (Nuthatches)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Described by
- Latham, J, 1790
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Latham, J, 1790
- Type locality
- Carolina, Jamaica [= South Carolina, fide Wayne, 1917, Contr. Charleston Mus., no. 3, p. 8].
- Original description
- Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiæ; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. 1 p.263
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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