Thursday, February 4, 2016

Backyard Birds: Those Nutty Nuthatches (13 photos)

Common names and scientific names: Nuthatches are in the genus Sitta. Species in North America include the white-breasted nuthatch (S. carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea) and the brown-headed nuthatch (S. pusilla).
Distribution: The white-breasted nuthatch resides across the U.S., extending north into Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, and south through central Mexico.

In the winter, you can see red-breasted nuthatches almost anywhere in the U.S. and Canada, but they live in lower Canada and the mountainous West the rest of the year.

The pygmy nuthatch spends the entire year in the pine forests of the West from southern Canada through central Mexico.

Confined to the Deep South, the brown-headed nuthatch is one of the few birds found exclusively in the U.S.


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