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Red-breasted Nuthatch -
(Sitta canadensis) 

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Identification

  • Small songbird
  • Grey body, pale rusty below
  • Head black and white
  • Top of head black on male, grey on female
  • White stripe above eye and white
         throat black eyeline
  • 4.5" (11 cm.)

Habitat

  • Coniferous forests, residential areas

Additional Information

  • Fairly common migrant and summer
         resident in northern WI
  • Fairly common winter resident
  • Occasionally found on the Reserve
         in summer
  • Winter sightings in southern WI
  • More numerous when there is a shortage
         of cones in the northern forests
  • Call is a nasal "hank-hank"

Comparable Species

  • White-breasted Nuthatch

Red Breasted Nuthatch posing on a branch

Red-breasted Nuthatch on a branch 

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hoocąk Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hoocąk and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Road 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960

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