Red-breasted nuthatch
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The red-breasted nuthatch is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a bla
Red breasted Nuthatch
Sitta canadensis CT2
Male in Washtenaw County, Michigan
The nuthatch's habit of wedging seeds into cracks and hammering them open has given rise to its common name.
Krüper's nuthatch
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Krüper's nuthatch is a species of bird in the nuthatch family Sittidae. It is a small to medium-sized nuthatch, measuring 12.5 centimetres in length. The upperparts are blue-grey, with the front half
Red-breasted nuthatch
…canadensis, as his binomial name. In the past, the red-breasted nuthatch and four other species, Corsican nuthatch, Chinese nuthatch, Algerian nuthatch and Krüper's nuthatch, were occasionally thought to be a single species. These five make up a well-defined species group known as the "Sitta canadensis group", and are…
Krüper's Nuthatch, Achladeri Forest, Lesvos, Greece, 16.04.2015
Illustrated by John Gould, showing a male Krüper's nuthatch on the right and a juvenile on the left.
Male Krüper's nuthatch.
An adult feeding its incubating partner at the entrance to its nest.