Nuthatches are small birds with pure white breast feathers, a bluish-gray back and tail, short legs, a long-pointed bill and almost no neck. The male has a black cap while the top of the female's ...

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 ...

Does not undertake large-scale irruptions (unlike the red-breasted nuthatch), but white-breasteds in the Rockies regularly move onto the Great Plains, and some northern birds disperse. Found in ...