White-tailed Nuthatch

White-tailed Nuthatch

Taxobox
name = White-tailed Nuthatch


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref = [BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/51965/all Sitta himalayensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 27 July 2007.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Sittidae
genus = "Sitta"
species = "S. himalayensis"
binomial = "Sitta himalayensis"
binomial_authority = Jardine & Selby, 1835
synonyms =

The White-tailed Nuthatch ("Sitta himalayensis") is a species of bird in the Sittidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam.

Description

It may be identified by the buff underside, smaller beak than in "Sitta cashmirensis". The white on the upper tail coverts is difficult to see in the field. It has a small bill and rufous-organge underparts with unmarked bright rufous undertail-coverts. Resident in the sub-Himalayan range form Himachal Pradesh to Arunachal Pradesh and into the South Assam Hills (Lushai Hills). It breeds from March to May in broad-leaved and mixed forest. [Rasmussen, P. C. & J. C. Anderton 2005. Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Smithsonian Institution & Lynx Edicions.]

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

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