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nuthatch
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nuthatch \Nut"hatch`\, n. [OE. nuthake. See 2d Hack.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species ( Sitta Europ[ae]a). The white-breasted nuthatch ( Sitta Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch ( Sitta Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch ( Sitta pygm[ae]a), and others, are American.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. Any of various small passerine birds from the family (l mul Sittidae) found throughout the Northern hemisphere that have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first.
WordNet
n. any of various small short-tailed sharp-beaked birds that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects [syn: nutcracker]
Wikipedia
The nuthatches constitute a genus, Sitta, of small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae. Characterised by large heads, short tails, and powerful bills and feet, nuthatches advertise their territory using loud, simple songs. Most species exhibit grey or bluish upperparts and a black eye stripe.
Most nuthatches breed in the temperate or montane woodlands of the Northern Hemisphere, although two species have adapted to rocky habitats in the warmer and drier regions of Eurasia. However, the greatest diversity is in Southern Asia, and similarities between the species have made it difficult to identify distinct species. All members of this genus nest in holes or crevices. Most species are non-migratory and live in their habitat year-round, although the North American red-breasted nuthatch migrates to warmer regions during the winter. A few nuthatch species have restricted ranges and face threats from deforestation.
Nuthatches are omnivorous, eating mostly insects, nuts and seeds. They forage for insects hidden in or under bark by climbing along tree trunks and branches, sometimes upside-down. They forage within their territories when breeding, but they may join mixed feeding flocks at other times. Their habit of wedging a large food item in a crevice and then hacking at it with their strong bills gives this group its English name.
Usage examples of "nuthatch".
T-adapter, then took a couple of frame-filling shots of a junco and a nuthatch.
Occasionally, squirrels dashed across the path in front of the travelers, and juncos, nuthatches, and titmice descended from higher branches to investigate or scold.
Now and again, as they rustled some low tree, a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startled chirp.
She ruffed the collar of her bathrobe around her throat as Lily, who had been outside feeding the nuthatches, admitted a funnel of frigid air.
The goldfinches and nuthatches on the birdfeeder hardly gave him a glance.
There were more birds: crows and robins, jays and grosbeaks, neocaths and nuthatches.
Occasionally, squirrels dashed across the path in front of the travelers, and juncos, nuthatches, and titmice descended from higher branches to investigate or scold.
Besides, maybe if I studied a few wrens and nuthatches I could erase the image of Matt and his mystery date from my mind.
She ruffed the collar of her bathrobe around her throat as Lily, who had been outside feeding the nuthatches, admitted a funnel of frigid air.
Eight miles north of the Park, in a hut in a clearing in the forested estate of Gayhurst Manor, a clutch of tired Wrens near the end of their shift were being ordered to halt the three bombes running on Nuthatch (Berlin-Vienna-Belgrade Army administration), strip them and prepare them for Shark.
I stretched back in the sun and hummed the song of the brown thrasher and of Barometer, the nuthatch.
When the sheriff had sent him away to the nuthatch in Terre Haute, he had been the grinning psych aide standing above his head in the room where they gave you the shocks, his hands on the controls (I'm gonna fry your brains out, boy, help you on your way as you change from Donald Merwin Elbert into the Trashcan Man, would you like hotwax on that?
Angling and disputing for positions at her feet and over various parts of her accommodating body were a whitethroat, a fieldfare, a willowwren, a nuthatch, a tree-pipit, a sand martin, a red-backed shrike, a goldfinch, a yellow bunting, two jays, a greater spotted woodpecker, three moorhens (on her lap with a mallard, a woodcock, and a curlew), a wagtail, four missel thrushes, six blackbirds, a nightingale and twentyseven sparrows.