How to Use nuthatch in a Sentence

nuthatch

noun

• Learn about these ways, then take a hike in search of nuthatches in the wild.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2019
• Above, a nuthatch in a city park uses a stick to pry up tree bark.
  — Nancy Averett, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
• A red-breasted nuthatch even showed; a late holdover from the winter.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 5 May 2017
• One nuthatch fell into tar and lost its tail feathers when it was cleaned.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
• The sound of the flowing river was broken by the chirping of a black-capped chickadee and a white-breasted nuthatch.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 18 Dec. 2017
• While most birds peck at food right side up, the nuthatch disdains proper manners.
  — Jerry Shnay, Daily Southtown, 11 June 2018
• But a downy woodpecker has set up shop in the old tree, and the chickadees and nuthatches are working over the bark something fierce.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
• For nuthatches and woodpeckers, hang a suet feeder block in a hanging basket.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
• There’s a wildness to poet Thorpe Moeckel — an attunement and in-tune-ment with the surf, the birch, the mud and flow, with wood ducks, cypress, nuthatch, moose, with the fast-slow shimmery passage of light and time.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• On it were several photos of a Eurasian nuthatch using a piece of wood to try to lift up a patch of willow tree bark, presumably looking for something to eat.
  — Nancy Averett, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
• Blue jays, cardinals, chickadees, finches, nuthatches and titmice will come for the black-oil sunflower seed.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• Of those, the most common are wrens, titmice, chickadees, bluebirds, house sparrows, nuthatches, fly catchers, tree swallows, woodpeckers, kestrels, wood ducks, barn owls and screech owls.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
• The paper looked at about a dozen songbird species, including the American robin, red-faced warbler, and other arboreal species, as well as ground-dwelling birds like the house wren and white-breasted nuthatch.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2018
• Our feeders in west Hennepin County attracted six purple finches and one red-breasted nuthatch.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
• If a tube feeder’s perches are located above its feeding ports, only birds that can feed while hanging upside down can use them, like nuthatches and woodpeckers.
  — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• Species that live there include pygmy nuthatches, kangaroo rats, rough-skinned newts and northern spotted owls, according to a monument pamphlet.
  — Andrew Selsky, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• Gary Ritchison, an ornithologist at Eastern Kentucky University, agrees it’s unknown why the nuthatches don’t trust the chickadees enough to repeat their level of alarm.
  — National Geographic, 27 Jan. 2020
• Being seen are representatives from eight finch species: pine siskin, common redpoll, hoary redpoll, purple finch, pine grosbeak, evening grosbeak, red crossbill, and white-winged crossbill, plus red-breasted nuthatch.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
• The cavities that woodpeckers create and later abandon provide living space for other creatures — birds such as titmice, nuthatches and wrens, but also for flying squirrels, Mason said.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 July 2019

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024