A tiny bird with a brown cap, blue-gray back, and whitish underparts. It lives year-round in mature pine forests of the southeastern United States.
It is tiny and compact, with a short tail and a sharp, chisel-like bill. It has a brown cap, blue-gray upperparts, and whitish underparts.
It zigzags up and down trunks and branches searching for insects under bark. It sometimes uses a small chip of bark as a tool to pry bark flakes away.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.