Red-Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)

Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis


Red-breasted Nuthatch is a small passerine bird with a sharp pointed bill, brick-color underparts, a white face with black stripe through the eyes, and a grey back.

Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis

Waldport, OR
2009-03-22

The nuthatches can hop on the tree trunk upside-down.

Other Sittidae species:

White-Breasted Nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis