The red-breasted nuthatch is a handsome little package that's easy to ID. The male sports a dark cap, white eyebrow, black line through the eye, orangish underparts and blue-gray back.

As long as food is plentiful, red-breasted nuthatches ride out winter in the north woods. One or two evenings during my January 2018 Algonquin foray, it dipped to 20 degrees below zero.

The red-breasted nuthatch is usually migrating through, generally preferring to live and breed further north in coniferous forests of pine, larch, spruce, hemlock and fir.

A few red-breasted nuthatches nest in East Tennessee’s mountains, where they’re present all year. But the majority nest in vast northern and western forests with cone-bearing trees.

Red-breasted Nuthatches are year-round residents in El Paso County, as well as in Teller County, but in times of poor cone crops they may move to lower elevations in winter.

Red-breasted nuthatches, relative of our more common brown-headed and white-breasted nuthatches, breed in the far north. Though some do head south in winter, in years when there is a dearth of ...

It was a red-breasted nuthatch, an infrequent winter visitor in these parts. As far as I can remember, the one in my yard was only the third one I’ve ever seen there in 25 years.

The red-breasted nuthatch it rates one step down, as "fairly common" fall and winter and rare in spring and summer. Robert E. Stewart, in "Breeding Birds of North Dakota," calls it "rare local and ...

A study finds that chickadee alarm calls are being understood by an entirely different breed of bird — the red-breasted nuthatch. Chris Templeton of the University of Washington says it makes ...

Red-breasted nuthatches could be more common than usual here this winter. Nuthatches are on the move in eastern states according to an email post by BirdCast, at bogtrottr.com, an Internet news ...

Red-breasted nuthatches are famous for their resonant call notes that sound like the toots of a toy tin horn with a nasal toned yank-yank-yank I've heard their calls resound on breeding grounds in ...