Tveten provides details for only two Texas nuthatches: White-Breasted & Red-Breasted. Of the Brown-Headed Nuthatch, he says (227), "Texas hosts the tiny brown-headed nuthatch ... Sitta pusilla, [which] inhabits the pine woodlands of East Texas." This specimen has the classic nuthatch profile, slate blue-gray upper body with white below. The crown is a rich brown, and there is a darker eye-stripe.

Lockwood & Freeman (Texas Ornithological Society Handbook of Texas Birds, p. 150) say "Locally common to rare resident in the Pineywoods. This species is largely confined to mature pine and pine-hardwood forests."

The species is still present in
January, 2016.

Photo taken with a Nikon D70 using a Nikon 300mm, f/4.5 lens.