Episode Details

Bahama Nuthatch :: Sitta insularis

Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 023

On today’s show we learn about the Bahama Nuthatch, a critically endangered avian native to the island of Grand Bahama in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 60 miles east of the North American mainland off the southern Florida coast.

• (00:05) Intro
• (02:05) Species Information
• (24:36) Citations
• (27:21) Music
• (34:49) Pledge

Research for today’s show was compiled from

• “Abundance and distribution of breeding birds in the pine forests of Grand Bahama, Bahamas” Journal of Caribbean Ornithology; Vol. 24 No. 1 – https://jco.birdscaribbean.org/index.php/jco/article/view/107
• Bahamas National Trust – https://bnt.bs/explore/grand-bahama/lucayan-national-park/
• Birds of the World from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bnhnut2.01 
• “Further vocal evidence for treating the Bahama Nuthatch Sitta (pusilla) insularis as a species. ” Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club; Vol. 140, No. 4 – https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v140i4.2020.a4
• IUCN – https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103881687/181353443
• “Land Bird Communities of Grand Bahama Island.” Ornithological Monographs No. 24 – https://doi.org/10.2307/40166704
• “Nuthatches vary their alarm calls based upon the source of the eavesdropped signals.” Nature Communication Vol. 11, No. 526 – https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14414-w 
• Sound Recording. David Pereira: XC614665 and XC615085, From Xeno-Canto. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/614665  and www.xeno-canto.org/615085 
• “Variation in responses to interspecific vocalizations among sister taxa of the Sittidae.” Avian Conservation and Ecology Vol. 15. Issue 2. Article 15 – http://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01646-150215 
• 2018 video footage of the Bahama Nuthatch – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eiy6yWxeqA
• Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahama_nuthatch

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