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nuthatches advertise their territory using loud,
simple songs. Most
species exhibit grey or
bluish upperparts and a
black eye stripe. Most
nuthatches...
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provide edible seeds. White-breasted
nuthatches seldom excavate their own nest
holes like red-breasted
nuthatches.
Although suitable habitat is distributed...
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compete with
Eurasian nuthatches for
nesting holes. The
parakeets tend to
occur in
fragmented urban woodlands,
while nuthatches prefer large old oak woodlands...
- used Brisson's name,
Sitta canadensis, as his
binomial name. Like all
nuthatches, the red-breasted
nuthatch is ****igned to the
genus Sitta (Linnaeus, 1758)...
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spotted creeper and
African spotted creeper. Some
taxonomists place the
nuthatches and
treecreepers in a
larger grouping with the
wrens and gnatcatchers...
- they
might be
fairly close to some little-studied
tropical Asian groups.
Nuthatches, wrens, and
their closest relatives are
currently grouped in a distinct...
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nuthatch family Sittidae. In
either case, it is
closely related to the
nuthatches; a 2016
phylogenetic study of
members in the
superfamily Certhioidea suggests...
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seeds are
commonly eaten by birds, such as grouse, crossbills, jays,
nuthatches, siskins, and wood****s, and by squirrels. Some birds,
notably the spotted...
- juncos, cardinals, thrushes, jays, kinglets, bluebirds, chickadees,
nuthatches, wrens, and
starlings prefer bird
feeders offering suet.
Christmas pudding...
- trunks. Most
nuthatches have gray or
bluish upperparts and a
black eyestripe.
Sitta is
derived from the
Ancient Gr**** name for
nuthatches, σίττη, sittē...
