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White-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta carolinensis · Family Sittidae

Sitta carolinensis

Family Sittidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Sittidae
GBIF occurrence records
14,329,530
Countries and territories with records
11
White-breasted Nuthatch
Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US · White-breasted Nutchatch (15241495465).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Sitta_carolinensis_-_White-breasted_Nuthatch_XC86754.mp3 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 14,329,530 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (87.1%) and Canada (12.8%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Sitta carolinensis combines the genus name Sitta with the species epithet carolinensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 29 species of the genus Sitta; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sitta canadensis, Sitta europaea and Sitta pusilla.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 29 species of the family Sittidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 16 times the family average (896,290). The family Sittidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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