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Beautiful Nuthatch (Sitta formosa), family Sittidae, order Passeriformes, Mishmi Hills, AP, India

photograph by abhinav sharma

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Bird #75 - the yellow-billed nuthatch (NT)

More pride birds! These are more blue than purple, but purple in birds is rare and this is the only one I could find that has both purple and yellow. You can see them in the wild in small patches around Laos, Vietnam and Hainan, China.

Nuthatches stand upside-down on tree trunks when foraging - the theory is that this gives them a different perspective to other upright birds in a similar niche, so they can find food that others have missed!

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White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)

A Nuthatch Feathursday

Nuthatches are small arboreal passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae. Most occupy the temperate woodlands of the Northern Hemisphere. Here in Wisconsin we have two species, the White-breasted (Sitta carolinensis) and Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis). Shown here is the Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) from a painting reproduced in our folio volume Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond, by British bird artist Terance James Bond, published in Cambridge, England, by the Lutterworth Press in 1988. As the name implies, it breads throughout Europe and much of Asia. Of this painting, Bond writes:

Trees are a passion of mine and the lovely thing about painting the Nuthatch is that I can incorporate a fair portion of the tree trunk in the painting. The infinite range of textures and hues presented by all trees and their barks is always exciting, and in planning the painting . . . I have shown the birds on the old willow, a favourite tree of mine.