Name:Sitta formosa
Alias:Sitta formosa,Beautiful Nuthatch
Outline:Songbird
Family:Passeriformes Songbirds Nuthidae
length:16-21cm
Weight:33-36g
Life:No verification information
IUCN:LC
Beautiful Nuthatch, also known as Beautiful Nuthatch in English, is a small songbird with no subspecies.
Beautiful Nuthatch usually lives in pairs or small groups on the tops of tall trees in valley forests. They mainly forage for insects under large trees with dense branches and leaves, including beetles, coleoptera and dipteran larvae. They also eat mosses, lichens, orchids and other epiphytes covering the trunks, and berries and seeds in winter. The movement of these birds is quite similar to that of other birds in the same genus, except that they move slower and their movements seem less certain. They are timid and their calls are low, weak and mellow.
In the mountainous areas of northeastern India, the breeding season of the nuthatches is from April to May. The nest is placed on a tree trunk 2-8 meters above the ground. Generally, large trees such as oak and rhododendron trees are chosen. The nest is low and lined with plants, which is relatively rough. The entrance of the nest is made of clay. Each nest lays 4-6 white eggs, which are sprinkled with dark red spots.
The main threats to the Nuthatch are forest loss, degradation and fragmentation due to plantation shifts, but more so local large-scale timber harvesting (e.g. logging of valuable conifers in central Laos and northern Vietnam), as well as overgrazing, burning and logging for timber (northeastern India). High hunting pressure in parts of its range is a significant threat.
Listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2016 ver 3.1 - Vulnerable (VU).
Listed in China's "National Key Protected Wildlife List" (February 5, 2021) Level 2.
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