Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)
- HABITAT - Red-breasted Nuthatch preferred habitat includes coniferous forest. When winter food crops fail in these boreal forests, they may migrate hundreds of miles to the south. Their range includes every Canadian province and territory as well as the mountainous states of U.S.A.
- DIET - In summer, Red-breasted Nuthatches eat mainly insects and other arthropods such as beetles, caterpillars, spiders, ants, and earwigs, and they raise their nestlings on these foods. In fall and winter they tend to eat conifer seeds, including seeds they cached earlier in the year.
- FACTS - Nuthatches forages by climbing up and down trunk and branches of trees, sometimes catches flying insects in the air. They cache food items in bark crevices.
Red-breasted Nuthatch GALLERY
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