yank-yank-yank-yank-yank
One of the smallest songbirds with the classic steel-blue upperparts and orange breast and belly, the Red-breasted Nuthatch is either in your face at feeders, or a distant tease with that nasal call.
A few Oklahoma residents are already predicting an invasion, which may or may not come to pass, but if food is scarce for them already in the northern hinterlands, they could be getting interested in the Great Plains as a possible range expansion vector.
Known for a strong interest in the spruce budworm, this nuthatch can almost smell them for their weight in gold. During the massive budworm infestation of the 1970s in the Boreal Forest wildness, a change was created in forestry over a ten year period that still lasts today with irruptive migrant behavior. Tied in with this species, it also includes the Evening Grosbeak, Black-capped Chickadee, both crossbills, Pine Siskin and more on the tail end of the phenomena. This will be discussed in the next section. For more information, see: https://debhirt.blogspot.com/2018/10/long-term-effects-regarding-late-1960s.html
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Wikipedia
The species has already increased its range in a southward moving by nesting in ornamental conifers, especially in mature forest, which is required for nesting sites in decaying wood. Like its white-breasted cousin and others, this nuthatch is known for hitching backward down trees.
The future of this bird over the next several decades to half century will be in a northerly direction. However, areas with conifers will always win out, be it north or south. Therefore, there will be much more range loss in summer than in the winter.
Known for its friendless and lack of fear toward humans, if one stands still in its favored zone, it will come quite close.
No comments:
Post a Comment