Sitta formosa Blyth, 1843

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.13820267

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scientific name

Sitta formosa Blyth, 1843
status

 

Sitta formosa Blyth, 1843 View in CoL

Callisitta formosa

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceID: C822C806-BBA4-5A84-958B-F4BADA8FBCB8; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Chordata; class: Aves; order: Passeriformes ; family: Sittidae ; genus: Sitta ; Location: country: Vietnam; stateProvince: Nghe An; locality: Ky Son ; verbatimElevation: 2,088 m; verbatimLatitude: 19 ° 13.167 ’ N; verbatimLongitude: 104 ° 06.158 ’ E GoogleMaps

Conservation status

Vulnerable

Distribution

Beautiful Nuthatch has been recorded as a scarce to uncommon resident in West Tonkin and East 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. Beautiful Nuthatch was recently listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List 2024. Elsewhere, this species has been recorded as a resident in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand ( IUCN 2024).

Diagnosis

Size: 16.5 cm. Adult: Large, upperparts black, streaked brilliant blue to white on crown, nape and mantle, broad blue band along scapulars to back and rump, black wings with two narrow white wing-bars, dull rufous-buff underparts with paler throat and head-sides (Fig. 17 View Figure 17 ). Juvenile: Very similar to adult, but white streaks on upperparts may be bluer, whiter and paler underparts, particularly on breast.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Sittidae

Genus

Sitta

Loc

Sitta formosa Blyth, 1843

Le, Hung Manh, Ho, Thang, Le, Trung Nguyen Thoi, Nguyen, Hoa Ngoc & Nguyen, Thach Dang 2024
2024
Loc

Callisitta formosa

Callisitta formosa