Jan. 4—One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy ...

"Head up or head down … / With a cutaway coat / And a broad white vest / And a high standing collar / He is always well dressed." —Garrett Newkirk in "Bird-Lore" Throughout the year, along with wrens ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Six ...

One of the rarest birds in the western hemisphere, the Bahama Nuthatch, has been rediscovered by research teams searching the island of Grand Bahama. The finding is particularly significant because ...

The white-breasted nuthatch is often observed walking and probing head-down on the trunks of large conifers in mature wooded areas. The first impression is a small bird with a very white head and ...

If you see a very agile, active little bird hopping down a tree trunk headfirst, or hanging upside down, it is probably a nuthatch; maybe a red-breasted or a white-breasted nuthatch. I’ve always ...

Compared to last year, white-breasted nuthatches likely will show up at fewer bird feeders this winter. But, compared to 30 years ago, the energetic little birds will be spotted at many more feeders.

Temperatures in the Calgary area this week are cold. Really cold. Humans are struggling to stay warm and get from A to B. Could we learn a thing or two from some feathered friends? We are talking ...

It's that little bird that often climbs down the trunk of the tree head first. The only bird that is able to do so, it is the nuthatch's foot structure that makes this behavior possible. It has two ...

1. The name nuthatch probably results from the corruption of the word “nuthack,” which refers to its habit of hacking away at a seed with its beak until the seed opens. 2. White-breasted nuthatches ...