Pygmy Nuthatch

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Sittidae

Genus

Sitta

eBird Code

pygnut

Subspecies (6)

• Sitta pygmaea brunnescens

  southwestern Mexico (southern Jalisco and Michoacán)

• Sitta pygmaea elii

  eastern Mexico (southwestern Nuevo León and southeastern Coahuila)

• Sitta pygmaea flavinucha

  western Veracruz (Mount Orizaba) to western Puebla, Morelos, and México

• Sitta pygmaea leuconucha

  southern California (San Jacinto and Laguna mountains) to northern Baja California

• Sitta pygmaea melanotis

  southwestern Canada and mountains of western and west-central USA southward to northwestern Mexico

• Sitta pygmaea pygmaea

  western California (Mendocino County to San Luis Obispo County)