This is a monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Nuthatches are distinctive with short tails, long bills and bulky bodies. They are ...

Pygmy nuthatches are frequent visitors to our winter suet feeder. Delightful small birds, Sitta pygmacea often perch upside down. Routinely, we see three to four, their quick movements captivating.

Despite being one of the more common local birds, you may have never seen a Pygmy nuthatch. Their miniscule four-inch-long bodies are easy to overlook. They thrive in conifer forest, especially ...

If you see a very agile, active little bird hopping down a tree trunk headfirst, or hanging upside down, it is probably a nuthatch; maybe a red-breasted or a. Serving Summit County, CO.

The Pygmy Nuthatch eats pine nuts and some insects, including leaf beetles and weevils. It lives in pine forests, preferring to nest in larger, older trees. A highly social species, this bird has ...

What is with that crazy bird? Why does he just climb down the tree then fly to the top and then climb down again? It is a nuthatch. It’s habit of hopping headfirst down tree trunks helps it see ...

There is a prominent bird in the 2000 film Charlie’s Angels that makes absolutely no sense.This so-called Pygmy Nuthatch doesn’t look or sound like it should, or live where the characters say ...

The white-breasted nuthatch is often observed walking and probing head-down on the trunks of large conifers in mature wooded areas. The first impression is a small bird with a very white head and ...