White-breasted Nuthatch
| Sitta carolinensis | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Sittidae (Nuthatches) |
Sitta carolinensis
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sittidae (Nuthatches)
Our largest nuthatch, more associated with deciduous forests than other nuthatches, the White-breasted Nuthatch is a frequent feeder visitor, coming for sunflower seeds and suet. One or two may associate with a chickadee flock in winter, but are more standoffish, usually on the periphery of the action.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Fieldfare: The One That Got Away 2024
- Spring Update 2023
- 2022 Duluth Christmas Bird Count, Part 2 2022
- Saw-whet Owl! 2022
- Spring Symphony 2022
- Winter Bird Song, Part I 2022
- It's All Good 2022
- Feeding Birds, Part IV: Mealworms 2022
- White-breasted Nuthatch 2022
- New Years Brrrrrrding! 2022
- Spring Update 2021
- Hygiene and Hand-feeding Birds 2021
- April Update 2021
- Our Far-Flung Correspondents: WDRT Listener Mark Kastel's Barn Swallows 2021
- Looking for the Special Ones 2021
- Winter's End 2021
- 2020 Duluth Christmas Bird Count 2020
- Free Gifts for Bird Lovers 2020
- Hanging Together 2020
- October Snow! 2020
- The Crowded Outdoors 2020
- Marie's Birds 2020
- November Drear 2019
- Gus's Cat Video 2017
- Arm and Hammer bird trading cards, Part II 2017
- Warbler Walk Update 2017
- Where Are the Birds? Part 2 2017
- Where Are the Birds? Part I 2017
- The Cruelty of an April Wind 2016
- The Best Things in Life Are Free 2014
- Where Are All the Birds? 2014
- The Changing of the Guard 2012
- Red-breasted Nuthatches 2011
- Squirrels 2008
- Feeding Birds on a Budget 2008
- Baker Woodlot Then and Now 2008
- Keeping Track of Birds with a Bird Cam 2008
- White-breasted Nuthatch 2008
- Autumn 2007
- Nuthatch, Part II 2007
- Nuthatch, Part I 2007
- Looking for Owls with Sharon 2007
- Christmas Bird Count 2006 2006
- Birding at Minnesota River Valley National Wildlife Refuge 2006
- Easter Weekend in Port Wing 2006
- Red-breasted Nuthatch 2006
- This Winter 2005
- Aurora 2004
- Cape May Warbler 2004
- Conservation: Chimneys and Plastic Rings 2004
- Cats Indoors 2004
- Spring Is Coming! 2004
- Christmas Bird Count 2003 summary 2003
- December Gloom 2003
- Birds on Christmas Cards 2003
- Winter's start 2003
- Changing Bird Numbers 2003
- November 2003
- Mealworms 2003
- Wasps 2003
- Rats 2003
- Mealworms 2003
- Red-bellied Woodpecker 2003
- White-breasted Nuthatch 2003
- Winter: the Sounds of Silence 2003
- Christmas and Birds 2002
- White-breasted Nuthatch 2002
- Feeding Birds in August, Part II 2002
- Last moments of a dying nuthatch 2001
- Why Birds? 2001
- Winter bird activity 2001
- Winter Bird Baths 2001
- Christmas 2000
- Free Gifts for the Birds in Our Own Backyard 2000
- Gifts for the Birds, Part I 2000
- John Kieran's White-breasted Nuthatch 2000
- National Bird-Feeding Month 2000
- Fewer Birds 1999
- White-breasted Nuthatch (Placeholder) 1998
- White-breasted Nuthatch 1998
- Mid- Late Summer 1997 1997
- Searching for Spring 1997
- National Bird-Feeding Month 1996
- White-throated Sparrow 1995
- Bird Feeding 1995
- Winter Solstice 1994
- White-breasted Nuthatch (Placeholder) 1994
- Interest in birds 1994
- Feeding birds in winter 1994
- Varied Thrush 1993
- Nuthatches (Placeholder) 1993
- Varied Thrush 1992
- Fall Bird Feeding 1992
- Warblers 1992
- Feeding Birds 1990
- Imaginary Birds 1990
- Bird Song Awareness Week 1989
- Attracting Birds in Spring 1989
- Sleep 1989
- Bird Report 1989
- Valentine's Day 1989 1989
- How birds survive winter 1989
- John Kieran's Nuthatches 1989
- Bird Feeding 1988
- White-breasted Nuthatch 1988
- More Questions about Birds 1988
- Sounds of Winter (reworked) 1988
- Why Birds Attract People 1988
- Onomatopoetic Bird Calls and Mnemonics 1987
- More arrivals: migration update 1987
- Early Signs of Spring 1987
- Valentine's Day 1987 1987
- Sounds of Winter 1987
- Feeding birds 1986
- John Kieran's White-breasted Nuthatch 1986
- Feeding in mid-autumn 1986
- Fall Feeding 1986
- Fall Migration Update 1986
- Lousy Weather: Spring Update 1986
Sound Recordings
- Wood Thrush: 11 songs (edited) 2024
- Breakfast in the Driftless 2024
- Birds scolding Northern Saw-whet Owl 2022
- Black-capped Chickadee: 45 seconds of dee-dee-dee calls 2022
- Cardinal Singing Bout: 8 songs 2022
- White-breasted Nuthatch song and calls 2022
- Black-capped Chickadee, 2 gargle calls 2022
- Winter Wren at Rib Mountain State Park 2021
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- Baltimore Oriole chatter 2018
- House Wren: 13 songs 2018
- House Wren: 6 minutes of singing 2018
- White-breasted Nuthatch: 3 songs 2018
- White-breasted Nuthatch: 12 songs 2018
- Hairy Woodpecker 2018
- Dawn in Trempealeau, Wisconsin; May 12, 2018 2018
- Red-eyed Vireo, 7 songs with chatter 2002