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Pygmy Nuthatch
Sitta pygmaea
PYNU · Sittidae · Nuthatches
Forest provisional · from avonet
2heard
The pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea) is a tiny songbird, about 10 cm (4 in) long and about 10 grams in weight.
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
2Detections
2Days heard
0.69Mean confidence
18 AugFirst heard
1 SepLast heard
2,244Stations worldwide
By hour of day
00061218
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
18 Aug
1 Sep
Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.
Where heard
At home2 detections
On outings0 detections
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather
Elsewhere
Recordings
Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.
2026-09-01 06:42
9 s
0.73
2026-08-18 08:30
9 s
0.64