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Nuthatch

noun
1.
Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects.  Synonym: nutcracker.



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"Nuthatch" Quotes from Famous Books



... A nuthatch may come to perch upside down on a tree nearby, blowing his elfin penny-trumpet note, a brown creeper may screep tinily or a downy woodpecker knock gently at the doors of insects shut within the rotten wood, but only the ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

... and one of the most charming and fearless. He perches on a hop hornbeam tree from which the catkins have just shed their yellow pollen and goes over it somewhat after the manner of a chickadee or a nuthatch, showing us as he does so the white under his chin, the two heavy black marks below that, the two white cross bars on his wings, and his coat of slate color, striped and streaked with black. He goes over every twig of the little tree and then flies off to another, first pausing, ...
— Some Spring Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell

... are those found in cultivation, and present no change, Anchusoides alba, abundant. Choughs very abundant; wild pigeons, ravens, Laurus; the nuthatch, a noisy but not unmusical bird, Chakor, together with small partridges, but these ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith



Words linked to "Nuthatch" :   oscine bird, Sitta canadensis, family Sittidae, Sitta europaea, oscine, Sittidae, Sitta carolinensis



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