Red Breasted Nuthatch
by Claudio Bacinello
Title
Red Breasted Nuthatch
Artist
Claudio Bacinello
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Description
The Red-breasted Nuthatch inhabits mixed-wood and coniferous regions, preferring spruce-fir forests. This bird lives mostly on the branches of trees instead of on the trunks, and in this way resembles a chickadee. The Red-breasted Nuthatch gets a special view of things by looking at the world upside down. Like the 16 other known nuthatch species, it is able to descend head downwards on tree trunks and branches. This is how they search in nooks and crannies in bark for tiny organisms overlooked by other birds that glean food while moving in an upright fashion.
An exceedingly active bird, the Red-breasted Nuthatch moves rapidly from one tree to the next in an undulating flight. Its habit of creeping mouselike along tree limbs means it is easy to overlook, and the Red-breasted Nuthatch�s high-pitched nasal yank-yank is often heard long before the bird itself is seen. The name "nuthatch" is derived from "nut-hack," a reference to the habit, especially in the European Nuthatch Sitta europaea, of hacking or pecking open nuts. It wedges hard-shelled nuts, such as hazelnuts, and other hard seeds in a bark crevice and then hammers them with its bill.
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February 4th, 2015
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