High in the dead branches of the shortleaf pine trees outside the Daniel Boone National Forest’s old ranger station is a pair of brown-headed nuthatches that are well outside of their historical range ...

At one time no longer found in Missouri, the brown-headed nuthatch is making a recovery with a little help from a multi-agency program. Short-leaf pine woodlands across the Missouri Ozarks were cut ...

Old bones are cold bones, I've heard it said, and my old bones have been sticking pretty close to home. That's why I don't have a bird of my own to present this week. Instead, I decided to borrow one.

It's that little bird that often climbs down the trunk of the tree head first. The only bird that is able to do so, it is the nuthatch's foot structure that makes this behavior possible. It has two ...

The white-breasted nuthatch is often observed walking and probing head-down on the trunks of large conifers in mature wooded areas. The first impression is a small bird with a very white head and ...

A tiny songbird that vanished from Missouri a century ago is making a comeback. It took restoring a forest to make it happen. The Missouri Department of Conservation and other wildlife agencies ...

Bird sounds that always make me chuckle are those of the red-breasted nuthatch. I won’t call them songs because they don’t meet most people’s idea of “song.” The most common call of this species is ...

If you keep a list of birds seen in a calendar year, it’s a happy challenge to look at the blank slate that Jan. 1 brings.

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