One of the rarest birds in the western hemisphere, the Bahama Nuthatch, has been rediscovered by research teams searching the island of Grand Bahama. The finding is particularly significant because ...

Getting kids interested in bird watching might be as simple as adding a little excitement. And what could be more exciting than the Great Nuthatch Hunt of 2017? Spring is the perfect time to grab ...

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 ...

Back in 2004, in what now seems like another life, I had a memorable experience on my way to work. Walking east along Wacker Drive, I noticed what looked like a leaf floating toward the sidewalk. It ...

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 ...

If you see a very agile, active little bird hopping down a tree trunk headfirst, or hanging upside down, it is probably a nuthatch; maybe a red-breasted or a white-breasted nuthatch. I’ve always ...

It's that little bird that often climbs down the trunk of the tree head first. The only bird that is able to do so, it is the nuthatch's foot structure that makes this behavior possible. It has two ...

One of the world’s rarest birds has been discovered alive two years after the species was believed to have died out. The highly endangered Bahama nuthatch was feared extinct following Hurricane ...

When elk were restored to their native habitat in Missouri in 2011, the 800-pound creatures thrived. Now the U.S. Forest Service and Missouri Department of Conservation hope for an equally successful ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3/Edited News Release) - The Missouri Department of Conservation and partners are planning to reintroduce a locally-extinct bird species to the Ozarks later this month.