White-breasted Nuthatch

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Sittidae

Genus

Sitta

eBird Code

whbnut

Subspecies (7)

• Sitta carolinensis aculeata

  western Washington to western Oregon (eastward to the west slope of the Cascades), California (eastward to the west slope of the Sierra Nevada), and northern Baja California (Sierra Juárez)

• Sitta carolinensis alexandrae

  mountains of northern Baja California (San Pedro Mártir)

• Sitta carolinensis carolinensis

  northeastern North America to Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and eastern Texas

• Sitta carolinensis lagunae

  mountains of southern Baja California (Sierra de la Laguna)

• Sitta carolinensis mexicana

  Mexico except northern and Baja California

• Sitta carolinensis nelsoni

  west-central and south-central USA southward to northern Mexico

• Sitta carolinensis tenuissima

  British Columbia and Cascades to the east slope of the Sierra Nevada of northern California (southward to Tulare County)