GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have found "quarantine hobbies," and birding is one hobby people are trying out for the first time. The journal Biological ...

No one likes to get duped by fake news, including the red-breasted nuthatch. A year-round resident of the Inland Northwest, this quirky little bird does its best to verify information before ...

Sitting on a bench surrounded by 70-foot-tall Norway spruces, I watch a red-breasted nuthatch take a peanut from a feeder in my front yard. There’s a cool breeze on this sunny autumn day, and I know ...

Hidden behind the needled boughs of a spruce tree that rises from my yard, a group of nuthatches was having an animated conversation. It seemed early in the day to engage in such lively chatter, but ...

The red-breasted nuthatch isn’t a bird that I expect to see every day, even when I look for them, so it was a pleasant surprise to find one drop in on my feeder array on the first day of last week’s ...

I love to visit the oak woodlands at any season. There’s always something going on, between migratory birds and the year-round presence of titmice, chickadees, jays and white-breasted nuthatches. This ...