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Photo by KC Foggin
Photographed: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA.

Sitta pusilla

[edit] Identification

10cm. White underparts, brown cap, narrow black eyeline, buff white cheeks, chin, and belly, blue-grey back, nape, wings, and rump, white spot on nape of neck, sharp black bill.

[edit] Distribution

Southeastern United States, and Bahamas.

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 2 subspecies.

[edit] Habitat

Pine forests.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes cockroaches, beetles, and spiders and pineseeds.

They nest in a tree cavity; the eggs are incubated for 14 days; the young fledge 18 days later.

[edit] References

Audubon; Wikipedia

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