Description: At 4.5 inches long, one of Georgia’s smallest songbirds; brown cap and narrow, dark eyeline; white spot on the back of the neck is visible at close range; grayish wings, back, and tail ...

Are the birds making the same racket, or is that beautiful music first thing in the morning at your house, like it is at mine? If you like the music of songbirds, I have great news for you. You can ...

The 10,000-plus North Carolinians who answered Audubon NC’s recent call and established nest boxes for habitat-challenged brown-headed nuthatches may be wrestling with a puzzle this spring. Are those ...

The design wunderkids over at Zupagrafika have worked their architectural magic yet again, this time creating small buildings that any hipster nuthatch would be happy to call home. The Hispano-Polish ...

Many of our birds are cavity nesters, that is, they nest in holes in trees and fence posts. Woodpeckers can use their strong bills to chisel holes to create their own cavities. Many other birds, such ...

There are over 20 resident Florida birds that nest in cavities in trees or branches. These include Eastern Bluebird, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Great-crested ...

My morning routine for feeding backyard birds includes spreading bark butter on a pine tree while an impatient white-breasted nuthatch utters a high-pitched nasal call, sounding like “thank, thank.” ...

Have you walked under some pine trees and heard what sounds like a rubber duck? I suspect it wasn’t a rubber duck but one of our smallest local birds communicating with companions as it foraged for ...