There can be no doubt that this year is an irruption year for Red-breasted Nuthatches. Sitta canadensis isn’t just...

Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down...

I have yet to find a person, let alone a birder, who does not like nuthatches.  They make funny...

I did not expect to be in North Carolina this December.  I especially did not expect to see snow...

Just about every part of the world has its specialty birds, those species for which conventional birding wisdom suggests...

John Clare (1793 – 1864) of England was known in his day as the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, both for...

The nasally honking “song” of White-breasted Nuthatches is, uh, well, I had to constrain the word “song” within quotation...