Definitionn. any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
Last update: September 11, 2015
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NUTHATCH, in older English NUTHACK, from its habit of hacking or chipping nuts, which it cleverly fixes, as though in a vice, in a chink or crevice of the bark of a tree, and then hammers them with the point of its bill till the shell is broken. [Please select]
Hairy Woodpecker, 1; Downy Woodpecker, 7; Blue Jay, 8; Goldfinch, 2; Pine Siskin, 1; Tree Sparrow, 75; Slate-coloured Junco, 20; Cardinal, 2; White-breasted Nuthatch, 3; Chickadee, 26. [Please select]
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_ Nuthatch, above blue: line above the eye, front, and middle of the lateral tail-feathers black; beneath cinereous brown, ears lilac, chin white. [Please select]
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THE SITTIDÆ OR NUTHATCH FAMILY The Sittidæ are a well-defined family of little birds. [Please select]
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The nuthatch most commonly seen in the hills is the white-tailed species (_Sitta himalayensis_). [Please select]
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There is a good deal of white in the tail, which is short in this and in all species of nuthatch. [Please select]
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