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One of these was the red-breasted nuthatch. Linnaeus included a brief description and used Brisson's name, Sitta canadensis, as his binomial name. [4] Like all nuthatches, the red-breasted nuthatch is assigned to the genus Sitta (Linnaeus, 1758), [5] a name derived from sittē (σίττη), the Ancient Greek word for the Eurasian nuthatch.
The red-breasted nuthatch makes the nest secure by daubing sticky conifer resin globules around the entrance, the male applying the resin outside and the female inside. The resin may deter predators or competitors (the resident birds avoid the resin by diving straight through the entrance hole). [ 58 ]
White-breasted nuthatch. Order: Passeriformes Family: Sittidae. Nuthatches are small woodland birds. They have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first, unlike other birds which can only go upwards. Nuthatches have big heads, short tails, and powerful bills and feet. Red-breasted nuthatch, Sitta canadensis
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Canada goose. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.
In 1975–1982 Hans Edmund Wolters proposed the division of the genus Sitta into subgenera, with Krüper's nuthatch placed in Sitta subgenus Mesositta (Buturlin, 1916), which also includes the Algerian nuthatch (S. ledanti), Yunnan nuthatch (S. yunnanensis), red-breasted nuthatch (S. canadensis), Chinese nuthatch (S. villosa) and Corsican nuthatch (S. whiteheadi). [5]
The chestnut-vented nuthatch (Sitta nagaensis) is a species of bird in the nuthatch family Sittidae. It is a medium-sized nuthatch, measuring 12.5–14 cm (4.9–5.5 in) in length. The upperparts are a solid grey-blue, with a markedly black loral stripe. The underparts are uniform grey to buff from the throat to belly, with brick red on the ...
White-breasted nuthatch. Order: Passeriformes Family: Sittidae. Nuthatches are small woodland birds. They have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first, unlike other birds which can only go upwards. Nuthatches have big heads, short tails, and powerful bills and feet. Three species have been recorded in Iowa.