Summary ⁴

The Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a black crown. Its call, which has been likened to a tin trumpet, is high-pitched and nasal. It breeds in coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States.

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1. (c) Per Verdonk, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/7551546@N08/2101493177
2. (c) Linda Tanner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/goingslo/8146833210/
3. (c) Thomas Quine, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinet/15815649248/
4. Adapted by floracliff from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitta_canadensis

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