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title: "Kowalik malutki"
description: "Sitta pusilla — Ptaki. The brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) is a small songbird endemic to pine forests throughout the Southeastern United States."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/brown-headed-nuthatch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kowalik malutki

> Sitta pusilla — Ptaki. The brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) is a small songbird endemic to pine forests throughout the Southeastern United States.

- Scientific name: *Sitta pusilla*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 10846
- Wikidata: [Q790651](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q790651)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14825](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14825)

## Names

- en: Brown-headed Nuthatch
- de: Braunkopfkleiber
- es: Trepador cabecipardo
- fr: Sittelle à tête brune
- nl: Bruinkopboomklever
- pl: Kowalik malutki

## Countries with the most observations

US (10305)

## Summary

The brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) is a small songbird endemic to pine forests throughout the Southeastern United States. Genetic analyses indicated low differentiation between northern and southern populations in Florida, but the study also found  lower genetic diversity among south Florida populations that may be a result of the increased habitat fragmentation that was documented. The Bahama nuthatch was formerly considered a subspecies (S. p. insularis), but has since been reclassified as its own separate species. Two recent studies assessing vocalizations in Bahama and continental nuthatch populations found…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-headed_nuthatch

## Photo

![Kowalik malutki](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-headed-nuthatch/medium.jpg)

Photo: Mark Connolly · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102554438

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-headed-nuthatch?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).