Male and female plumage similar. Face, throat, and breast are pure white. Belly is gray. Back and wings are a slaty blue-gray color. Crown of head and nape are black. Under-tail coverts are a rust color.

Male and female plumage similar. Face, throat, and breast are pure white. Belly is gray. Back and wings are a slaty blue-gray color. Crown of head and nape are black. Under-tail coverts are a rust color.

Common

Like other nuthatch species, White-breasted Nuthatches are a bark gleaner. Using their chisel shaped beak they exfoliate bark from tree trunks in their relentless search for insects. Often mistaken for a woodpecker based on how they shimmy up and down tree trunks. Nuthatches will visit seed, nut and suet feeders at backyard bird feeding stations.

Insects, seeds, nuts, suet

Pygmy and Red-breasted nuthatches

Granite Basin, Lynx Lake, Goldwater Lake, above 6,000 feet in the Bradshaw Mountains, Mingus Mountain.