White-Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)

White-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis


The White-Breasted Nuthatch is a small passerine bird with a gray back, white face and underneath, a long slender black bill, and gray legs and feet. The outer rims of the feathers are black. Its crown is gray.

White-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis


The bird is "reversed triangle" in shape.

White-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis

New Marlborough, MA
2009-10-29

The nuthatches are known to use cracks and cavities to fix foods and pecks on them, from which behavior came its name nuthatch.

Other Sittidae species:

Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Sitta canadensis