There can be no doubt that this year is an irruption year for Red-breasted Nuthatches. Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far...
Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down along limbs. The family has...
I have yet to find a person, let alone a birder, who does not like nuthatches. They make funny sounds, they walk upside down,...
I did not expect to be in North Carolina this December. I especially did not expect to see snow on the ground in North...
Just about every part of the world has its specialty birds, those species for which conventional birding wisdom suggests you have to go to...
John Clare (1793 – 1864) of England was known in his day as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, both for his provincial turns of phrase...
The nasally honking “song” of White-breasted Nuthatches is, uh, well, I had to constrain the word “song” within quotation marks, so it’s not exactly...
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