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A white-breasted nuthatch posing on a stump.
White-breasted nuthatch, side view. In a spruce tree in Connecticut, spring.
A White-Breasted Nuthatch.
The White-Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) is a small songbird that is common across much of temperate North America. It is a thickset bird, with a large head, short tail and long pointed bill. It has a white body with a black cap, white face and blue-gray upperparts. Like other nuthatches it forages for insects on trunks and branches while moving head-first down a tree.  Seeds, hickory nuts and acorns form a substantial part of its diet.  The nuthatch breeds in old-growth woodland and makes its nest is in a tree cavity.  This adult white-breasted nuthatch was feeding a juvenile at Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
White breasted nuthatch
A white-breasted nuthatch in the boreal forest.
A White-breasted Nuthatch profile on a bird bath
White-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinenis, in Maine.\
A white-breasted nuthatch on a branch
Richmond Hill
White-breasted Nuthatch (sitta carolinensis) on a tree branch with a green background
The Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a small songbird in the tit family Paridae.  Adults have a black cap joining a black stripe behind the eyes and distinctive white eyebrows. Their backs and flanks are gray with gray underparts.  They have a short black bill and a black bib.  The mountain chickadee inhabitants the mountainous regions of the western United States, ranging from the southern Yukon to California and the Rocky Mountain States.  They are monogamous and produce 1 to 2 broods per year.  The young stay in the nest for 21 days and are fed by both parents.  During the summer and breeding season their primary diet is insects.  Conifer and other seeds are part of the diet throughout the year.  The call of the mountain chickadee is a noisy chick-adee-dee-dee.  This chickadee was photographed while perching on a branch near Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
Tropical Gnatcatcher (Polioptila plumbea) perched in the middle of the branch
White-breasted nuthatch on tree trunk in Amherst Island, Ontario, in winter
Close-up of a white-breasted nuthatch standing on bird seed
Sitelle perchée sur un arbre
A white-breasted nuthatch that landed on a branch in fron of me.
Copsychus saularis
A White-breasted nuthatch briefly perches
A white-breasted Sitelle in the boreal forest.
White-breasted Nuthatch (sitta carolinensis) with a tasty morsel in it's beak
Feather detail of a female white-breasted nuthatch, familiar visitor to bird feeders in the U.S. A female because the cap is gray rather than black. Taken in Connecticut.
Witborst-boomklever; White-breasted Nuthatch
Richmond Hill
A white-breasted nuthatch perched on a branch
The Pygmy Nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea) is a tiny gregarious songbird whose habitat ranges from southern British Columbia south through the western United States to central Mexico. This bird has a gray cap with bluish upper parts and white underneath.  It is usually found in coniferous forests especially ponderosa pines. Pygmy nuthatches clamber among the limbs of these trees, feeding on insects and seeds.  Pygmy nuthatches nest in tree cavities, lining the bottom with pine-cone scales and other soft plant and animal material.  The female lays 4–9 eggs and does most of the incubation.  This pygmy nuthatch was photographed at Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
white breasted nuthatch in flight
Nuthatch perched on a log in woodland.
White-breasted nuthatch on post
Downy woodpecker on a yucca closing it's nictitating membrane (third eyelid) for protection when pecking.
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