One of my favorites is the white-breasted nuthatch, a perky little fellow who can often be seen working his way down the side of a tree in a zigzag pattern, probing the bark for insects.

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 ...

Less gregarious than other nuthatches, the white-breasted nuthatch is typically seen singly or in pairs. In fall and winter, it regularly forms small mixed-species flocks, but a single flock ...

If you've wanted to entice nuthatches to visit your feeders but haven't been able to do so, it might just be a matter of ...