General Description: White-breasted Nuthatches (Sitta carolinensis) are small black, gray, and white birds with a long, straight, heavy bill. Nuthatches forage on tree trunks, usually walking down the trunk looking for bugs behind flakes of bark. Watch for the black eye on a white face.

Males have dark black on the head, while females and juveniles are more gray.

Taxonomy: Passeriformes, Sittidae, Sittinae.

Favored Habitat: Forests.

Where to Find: Higher elevation areas from the Pinyon-Juniper zone up to treeline. The canyon above Willow Springs at Red Rock Canyon NCA has lots of pinyon pines, and most areas on Mt. Charleston have trees.

Comments:

White-breasted Nuthatch on the ground. This little guy might have flown into a window, but after a few minutes, he flew off into the trees.