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From the CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY and the AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION.

Sections

White-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta carolinensis

Order

PASSERIFORMES

– Family

SITTIDAE

Issue No. 054 – Revised: May 28, 2008

Authors: Pravosudov, V. V., and T. C. Grubb, Jr.

Revisors: Grubb, Jr., T. C., and V. V. Pravosudov

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Acknowledgments

We thank Sandra L. L. Gaunt of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics for providing the sonograms. Jeffrey T. Price provided the map of breeding densities.

Recommended Citation

Grubb, Jr., T. C. and V. V. Pravosudov. 2008. White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/054

doi:10.2173/bna.54