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 ...

The brown-headed nuthatch was extirpated from Missouri more than 100 years ago due to extensive logging of their habitat, short leaf pine forests. Fifty-six more brown-headed nuthatches are living ...

Nuthatches are year-round residents of our woods and daily visitors to the feeders. They're such a common sight that I hardly notice them. During early fall, there were so few birds at the feeders ...

Hidden behind the needled boughs of a spruce tree that rises from my yard, a group of nuthatches was having an animated conversation. It seemed early in the day to engage in such lively chatter, but ...

My morning routine for feeding backyard birds includes spreading bark butter on a pine tree while an impatient white-breasted nuthatch utters a high-pitched nasal call, sounding like “thank, thank.” ...