noun
definition
Any of various small passerine birds from the family Sittidae found throughout the Northern hemisphere that have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first.
Examples of nuthatch in a Sentence
White not only notes the homes and ways, the times and seasons, of plants and animals - comparing, for instance, the different ways in which the squirrel, the fieldmouse and the nuthatch eat their hazel-nuts - or watches the migrations of birds, which were then only beginning to be properly recorded or understood, but he knows more than any other observer until Charles Darwin about the habits and the usefulness of the earthworms, and is certain that plants distil dew and do not merely condense it.
We set off along the picturesquely named Devils Gorge, having already seen nuthatch on the feeders by the visitor center.
I did not see several species I saw in winter such as great rock nuthatch, desert finch and somber tit.