How to Use nuthatch in a Sentence

nuthatch

noun
  • Above, a nuthatch in a city park uses a stick to pry up tree bark.
    — Nancy Averett, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Learn about these ways, then take a hike in search of nuthatches in the wild.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2019
  • One nuthatch fell into tar and lost its tail feathers when it was cleaned.
    — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
  • While most birds peck at food right side up, the nuthatch disdains proper manners.
    — Jerry Shnay, Daily Southtown, 11 June 2018
  • This seed is a favorite of cardinals, finches, nuthatches, and many more.
    — Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This seed is a favorite of cardinals, finches, nuthatches, and many more.
    — Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
  • The downy also clings upside down on tree branches, reminding me of a nuthatch or chickadee.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • For nuthatches and woodpeckers, hang a suet feeder block in a hanging basket.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
  • But a downy woodpecker has set up shop in the old tree, and the chickadees and nuthatches are working over the bark something fierce.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Suet is good for attracting birds that love insects, such as woodpeckers, chickadees, and nuthatches.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2025
  • But if that chickadee is joined by a family group of nuthatches and titmice, things might get interesting.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This type of birdhouse will attract birds such as wrens, bluebirds, chickadees, tree swallows, warblers, nuthatches, and more.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
  • Bird feeders and birdbaths can draw the attention of songbirds, such as blackbirds, chickadees and those crazy nuthatches.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
  • This bird feeder has six ports so multiple small birds (like sparrows, goldfinches, and nuthatches) can enjoy having a snack at the same time.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Blue jays, cardinals, chickadees, finches, nuthatches and titmice will come for the black-oil sunflower seed.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Suet cakes of this sort are ideal for attracting woodpeckers and other year-round resident birds, like nuthatches.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2025
  • This call is also understood by nuthatches, which will join in to mob and harass the predator, forming a kind of defensive alliance.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • This way, your birdhouses will be available for the earliest nesting species such as chickadees, titmice, and nuthatches.
    — Molly Burford, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Within a few years, I could be heard to note that the nuthatches were running late this season, or that the chickadees renewed their lease on the south nesting box.
    — Murr Brewster, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2025
  • His winning image, capturing a Eurasian nuthatch flying overhead, was the stunning outcome.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Chickadees, nuthatches, and others are able to locate and eat dormant and larval insects by carefully inspecting crevices and cracks in tree bark.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2024
  • On it were several photos of a Eurasian nuthatch using a piece of wood to try to lift up a patch of willow tree bark, presumably looking for something to eat.
    — Nancy Averett, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Chickadees, nuthatches, and other songbirds love Virginia creeper berries, and these vines are also host plants for several types of sphinx moths.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Our feeders in west Hennepin County attracted six purple finches and one red-breasted nuthatch.
    — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
  • If a tube feeder’s perches are located above its feeding ports, only birds that can feed while hanging upside down can use them, like nuthatches and woodpeckers.
    — Kj Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Cavity nesting birds, such as bluebirds, chickadees, flycatchers, nuthatches, trogons, and wrens as well as some duck species, use birdhouses or nest boxes.
    — Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Of those, the most common are wrens, titmice, chickadees, bluebirds, house sparrows, nuthatches, fly catchers, tree swallows, woodpeckers, kestrels, wood ducks, barn owls and screech owls.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Others, like purple martins, Carolina wrens, and white-breasted nuthatches, will use nesting boxes that are specially designed for them.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
  • The paper looked at about a dozen songbird species, including the American robin, red-faced warbler, and other arboreal species, as well as ground-dwelling birds like the house wren and white-breasted nuthatch.
    — National Geographic, 25 June 2018
  • While gopher tortoises can be encountered in abundance during a visit to the park, guests can also marvel at its longleaf pine forests, with bird species like the downy woodpecker and red-breasted nuthatch found flitting from tree to tree.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

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