Red-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766

Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, is a passerine in the nuthatch family that breeds widely across North America. It was described by Linnaeus in 1766. It is a small songbird of coniferous forests in Canada, Alaska and the north-eastern and western United States. Adults show blue-grey upperparts, cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face, a black line through the eye, a straight grey bill and a black crown. It nests in dead wood, often near the ground, and seals the entrance with pitch.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Sittidae — Nuthatches

Breeding range

North America: widespread