How to Use nuthatch in a Sentence
nuthatch
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Learn about these ways, then take a hike in search of nuthatches in the wild.
—Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2019
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Above, a nuthatch in a city park uses a stick to pry up tree bark.
—Nancy Averett, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
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A red-breasted nuthatch even showed; a late holdover from the winter.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 5 May 2017
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One nuthatch fell into tar and lost its tail feathers when it was cleaned.
—Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
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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
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While most birds peck at food right side up, the nuthatch disdains proper manners.
—Jerry Shnay, Daily Southtown, 11 June 2018
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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
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For nuthatches and woodpeckers, hang a suet feeder block in a hanging basket.
—Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
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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
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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
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Blue jays, cardinals, chickadees, finches, nuthatches and titmice will come for the black-oil sunflower seed.
—Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 25 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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Our feeders in west Hennepin County attracted six purple finches and one red-breasted nuthatch.
—Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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