A female white-breasted nuthatch on a mossy log.

White-breasted Nuthatch

Châteauguay, Québec

One of the best-loved backyard birds in the Northeast is the white-breasted nuthatch, a deciduous woodland resident that can often be found snatching peanuts out of hands in the local park. Their headfirst crawl down tree trunks and persistent ank-ank-ank voice immediately endear them to hikers and birders. But don't let the pretty face fool you, as they can be rather feisty when other species come into their territory, and that long, thin beak is good for other things besides opening and caching nuts. The bird in this photo is a female, lacking the jet-black head stripe of the male, seen probing logs in the park just after the last of the snow had melted away.

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