A group of bird watchers walked the trails at Tamarack Nature Center recently, on the lookout for late migrants as well as birds that will be around all winter. We'd come to this large park in White ...

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Bill Oddie presents the nuthatch. Nuthatches are the only UK birds that can climb down a ...

The pygmy nuthatches, each small enough to hide inside a tennis ball, redirected my thoughts from watching elk to listening to the world. In the middle distance an elk harem casually grazed while the ...

I wrote three weeks ago about my affinity for the nuthatches we see in New England. In the middle and southern parts of the region we see White-breasted Nuthatches much more frequently than its ...

People who feed birds are probably familiar with the white-breasted nuthatch, a common backyard visitor. They typically fly in to the feeder, grab a sunflower seed and dart off to a nearby tree with ...