WASHINGTON – Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language — chickadee. It's not unusual for one animal to react to the alarm call of another, but nuthatches seem to go beyond ...

What is with that crazy bird? Why does he just climb down the tree then fly to the top and then climb down again? It is a nuthatch. It’s habit of hopping headfirst down tree trunks helps it see ...

No one likes to get duped by fake news, including the red-breasted nuthatch. A year-round resident of the Inland Northwest, this quirky little bird does its best to verify information before ...

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 ...

Sitting on a bench surrounded by 70-foot-tall Norway spruces, I watch a red-breasted nuthatch take a peanut from a feeder in my front yard. There’s a cool breeze on this sunny autumn day, and I know ...

Human progress has not been kind to either the Eastern bluebird or the brown-headed nuthatch. The bluebirds lost their homes in fence posts to large-scale farming. Logging and development took the ...

We're slipping too quickly toward winter, but walking in the parks this time of year is always a pleasure. The oppressive heat and humidity are gone, and the bright, cooler days coupled with pretty ...

Those of us living in the Houston and San Antonio areas are being treated to the uncommon arrival of red-breasted nuthatches in our backyards. We're experiencing an irruption of the birds, meaning ...

This nasally call should be familiar to everyone who feeds birds or tromps through the woods. It's the sound made by a white-breasted nuthatch staying in touch with a partner, as these natty birds ...

Jan. 4—One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy ...