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Bird feeder guest - nuthatch

13.12.2009 - 11:46 |  Looduskalender
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
 
Nuthatch.
 
  Eurasian nuthatch
Puukoristaja
  Sitta europaea    
 
The nuthatch is one of the few birds who can move along a tree trunk with its head downwards – this can be seen at the feeder sometimes. In winter the nuthatches like to keep company with tits.

Nuthatches have a spool-shaped body and a short tail. The back is bluish-grey, the underside white, the sides of the belly and the undertail feathers are rusty red-brown. The black eye-streak and the long and strong beak are very characteristic. The female and male birds look similar. This noticeable bird has  many names: local British names are for instance woodpecker, woodhacker, woodcracker, nut topper, nut jobber, mud stopper; some Estonian names are, in translation: woodpecker, wood wagtail, woodborer, pisser, tow-blower, piper.
Winter numbers vary between a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand individuals; on our western islands the nuthatch is seldom seen.

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