A study finds that chickadee alarm calls are being understood by an entirely different breed of bird — the red-breasted nuthatch. Chris Templeton of the University of Washington says it makes sense ...

Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language — chickadee. It’s not unusual for one animal to react to the alarm call of another, but nuthatches seem to go beyond that — ...

The broad-winged hawk migration is reaching its peak this week. The numbers have been intensifying at Hawk Mountain with a daily high count for the season of 775 on Thursday. On Wednesday, 177 were ...

Getting kids interested in bird watching might be as simple as adding a little excitement. And what could be more exciting than the Great Nuthatch Hunt of 2017? Spring is the perfect time to grab ...

A couple years back while deer hunting in southern British Columbia I settled back against a tree to enjoy lunch when the scratching on a nearby tree drew my attention. From less than 10 feet I ...

During my school teaching days, this time of the year usually signaled the start of a unit on ornithology – the study of birds – in my seventh grade classes. Along with all the ecological and ...

On a recent walk in the Maine woods, I heard a red-breasted nuthatch calling softly to itself. It was 6 feet above me in a large white pine, climbing down the tree headfirst. Looking through my ...

On a recent walk in the Maine woods, I heard a red-breasted nuthatch calling softly to itself. It was six feet above me in a large white pine, climbing down the tree head first. Looking through my ...

Red-breasted nuthatches are one of my favorite birds. Admittedly, I have a lot of favorites, but these are at the top of my list perhaps because they, as birds with a more northerly range than the ...

I love to visit the oak woodlands at any season. There’s always something going on, between migratory birds and the year-round presence of titmice, chickadees, jays and white-breasted nuthatches. This ...

Sitting on a bench surrounded by 70-foot-tall Norway spruces, I watch a red-breasted nuthatch take a peanut from a feeder in my front yard. There’s a cool breeze on this sunny autumn day, and I know ...