The tiny Red-breasted Nuthatch is smaller than a sparrow, so its call may be more noticeable, sounding like a kid blowing a tin trumpet in the forest.

The presence of this nuthatch is typically announced by its nasal calls. The red-breasted nuthatch has the un­usual habit of smearing resin around the entrance hole to its nest, presumably to ...

The red-breasted nuthatch is a handsome little package that's easy to ID. The male sports a dark cap, white eyebrow, black line through the eye, orangish underparts and blue-gray back.

A quiet summer morning turns magical as a white-breasted nuthatch and its fledglings bring joy, curiosity, and calm to a well ...

Mention the name “nuthatch” and most people will think of the white-breasted nuthatch, a year-around resident lured to many feeding stations in the Lehigh Valley region. In winter, howe… ...

Red-breasted nuthatches could be more common than usual here this winter. Nuthatches are on the move in eastern states according to an email post by BirdCast, at bogtrottr.com, an Internet news ...

The red-breasted nuthatch is usually migrating through, generally preferring to live and breed further north in coniferous forests of pine, larch, spruce, hemlock and fir.

While white-breasted nuthatches are common visitors to virtually every suet and sunflower feeder in the state, the tiny red-breasted is rarely, if ever, seen by most Iowans.

Georgia sightings of the red-breasted nuthatch could be because of a shortage of spruce seeds, its primary food, and a harsh winter up north.

Inside my home on the West Coast, I often hear my neighbors. Whenever a nasal honk-honk-honk alerts me that they’ve fluttered into my yard, I rush outside to watch red-breasted nuthatches scurry ...

NO FEWER THAN four friends have taunted me for the last several months with their reports of the red-breasted nuthatches (Sitta canadensis) hanging around their feeders.

The white-breasted nuthatch is often observed walking and probing head-down on the trunks of large conifers in mature wooded areas.