Corsican nuthatch
sitta whiteheadi latin

The Corsican Nuthatch has a pu-pu-pu call and a trilled hididididididi song.

The Eurasian Nuthatch has an adult annual survival rate of 53% and the male Corsican Nuthatch 61.6%.

And in Europe, the Corsican nuthatch and the recently recognised Monteiro's storm-petrel, have been added to the list of those birds under threat of disappearing.

The Corsican Nuthatch (Sitta whiteheadi) is a small passerine bird which is endemic to Corsica, where it is the only nuthatch.

The Corsican Nuthatch is 12 cm long, smaller than the Eurasian Nuthatch, and has the typical nuthatch big head, short tail and powerful bill and feet.

The Red-breasted Nuthatch, Corsican Nuthatch and Chinese Nuthatch have breeding ranges separated by thousands of kilometres, but are similar in habitat preference, appearance and song.

There are other species endemic to Corsica especially in the upper mountain ranges, i.e. Corsican Nuthatch, Corsican Fire Salamander and Corsican Brook Salamander and many plant subspecies.

The Corsican Nuthatch is a resident bird of the mountain forests of Corsica, and is closely associated with Corsican Pine preferably with some very old trees aged 300 years or more for nesting.

In the past, the Red-breasted Nuthatch and four other species - the Corsican Nuthatch, the Chinese Nuthatch, the Algerian Nuthatch and the Krüper's Nuthatch - were thought to be a single species.

Within the species group, DNA studies have shown that the Red-breasted Nuthatch, the Corsican Nuthatch and the Chinese Nuthatch make up one clade and the Algerian Nuthatch and Krüper's Nuthatch make up a sister clade.

The strength of the association varies from the Corsican Nuthatch, which is closely linked with Corsican Pine, to the catholic habitat of the Eurasian Nuthatch, which prefers deciduous or mixed woods but breeds in coniferous forests in the north of its extensive range.

The Corsican Nuthatch (Sitta whiteheadi) is a small passerine bird which is endemic to Corsica, where it is the only nuthatch.