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Above: A White-breasted Nuthatch at Point Lookout SP, St. Mary's Co., Maryland (10/7/2007), where the species probably only occurs at the point as a migrant. Below: Photographed in central Indiana (12/24/2005).
Below: A White-breasted Nuthatch in Carroll County, Maryland in January 2005.
Below two: A White-breasted Nuthatch photographed in Cecil Co., Maryland (1/2005).

Comments:  This common year-round resident of most of the U.S. prefers deciduous and mixed woodlands, where it adeptly forages along the trunks and branches of trees. Nuthatches are some of the only birds species that can climb down a tree head-first. They are frequent visitors to suburban feeders, and are always entertaining to watch. In the winter, nuthatches often join mixed foraging flocks with chickadees, titmice, Downy Woodpeckers, and Brown Creepers.