If you see a very agile, active little bird hopping down a tree trunk headfirst, or hanging upside down, it is probably a nuthatch; maybe a red-breasted or a white-breasted nuthatch. I’ve always ...

The power of flight gives most birds a perfectly valid reason to disregard the power of gravity. The family of tree-clinging birds known as nuthatches lives an even more topsy-turvy lifestyle than ...

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 deter ...

The nuthatch is a true acrobat among birds — it is the only bird in Europe that can climb down tree trunks upside down. But its impressive abilities go far beyond that. PETBOOK has compiled some ...

Old bones are cold bones, I've heard it said, and my old bones have been sticking pretty close to home. That's why I don't have a bird of my own to present this week. Instead, I decided to borrow one.

The white-breasted nuthatch is often observed walking and probing head-down on the trunks of large conifers in mature wooded areas. The first impression is a small bird with a very white head and ...

A group of bird watchers walked the trails at Tamarack Nature Center recently, on the lookout for late migrants as well as birds that will be around all winter. We'd come to this large park in White ...

It's that little bird that often climbs down the trunk of the tree head first. The only bird that is able to do so, it is the nuthatch's foot structure that makes this behavior possible. It has two ...

The 10,000-plus North Carolinians who answered Audubon NC’s recent call and established nest boxes for habitat-challenged brown-headed nuthatches may be wrestling with a puzzle this spring. Are those ...

The 10,000-plus North Carolinians who answered Audubon NC’s recent call and established nest boxes for habitat-challenged brown-headed nuthatches may be wrestling with a puzzle this spring. Are those ...