Sitta himalayensis Jardine & Selby, 1835

Le, Hung Manh, Ho, Thang, Le, Trung Nguyen Thoi, Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc & Nguyen, Thach Dang, 2024, New records of birds from Central Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 133721-e 133721 : e133721-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e133721
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13805939
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scientific name	Sitta himalayensis Jardine & Selby, 1835
status

Treatment

Sitta himalayensis Jardine & Selby, 1835 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceID: 9CECB4A4-28E7-5279-9977-AE81F8E08075; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Aves; order: Passeriformes ; family: Sittidae ; genus: Sitta ; Location: country: Vietnam; stateProvince: Nghe An; locality: Ky Son ; verbatimElevation: 2,211 m; verbatimLatitude: 19 ° 13.253 ’ N; verbatimLongitude: 104 ° 05.502 ’ E GoogleMaps

Conservation status

Least Concern

Distribution

White-tailed Nuthatch has been recorded as an uncommon resident in West Tonkin ( Robson 2008, Craik and Minh 2018, Hung et al. 2021 b). This is the first confirmed record of the species for North Annam, Central Vietnam. Elsewhere, this species has been recorded as a resident in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar and Nepal ( IUCN 2024).

Diagnosis

Size: 12 cm. Male: Grey upperparts with two black lines from eyes to lower nape, buff underside, white on the uppertail coverts, small bill and rufous-orange underparts with unmarked bright rufous undertail-coverts, whitish throat (Fig. 16 View Figure 16 ). Female: Ear-coverts and underparts slightly paler and duller.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Sittidae
Genus	Sitta