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Red-Breasted Nuthatch


Red-Breasted Nuthatch
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Copyright: cecilia lazzaro (cecilia) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 502 W: 6 N: 1238] (4628)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-10-14
Categories: Birds
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/60 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-10-17 19:15
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Sorry another Nuthatch...

RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH
Cool fact: The only North American nuthatch that regularly migrates. The Red-breasted Nuthatch is irruptive, which means it moves southward in unusually large numbers during some winters. These irruptions may be closely tied to the extent of the cone crop in the bird's breeding area.

Red-breasted Nuthatches are 4.5 in. (110 mm) in length.They are easily separated from other North American nuthatches by their dark eyestripe, white supercilium, and buff-orange underparts.

Red-breasted Nuthatches are almost always found in conifer trees, where they live in pairs. Often, one can hear the male and female "talking softly" to each other with single, nasal-sounding contact notes, while they forage a few meters apart along the trunks and branches of pine or spruce trees.

Description: Male Red-breasted Nuthatches have a black crown and nape. The lores, the supercilium, and the sides of the mantle are white. A black eyestripe broadens backward to the sides of the mantle. The chin, cheeks, ear coverts, and sides of the upper neck are white. The upperparts, lesser and median coverts, and central tail feathers are gray-blue. The outer 4 tail feathers have white centers, and the outer 3 have gray-blue tips. The primaries, secondaries, tertials, and alula are dark gray-brown. The lower neck, breast, flanks, belly, vent, and undertail coverts are rusty-cinnamon. The upper mandible is black, the lower is pale gray, and the legs and feet are dusky.
Females are similar to males, but the crown and nape and eyestripe are dark gray, not black; the eyestripe is variable but usually paler than in males. Underparts are paler, not as richly colored as males.

There is no geographic variation in Red-breasted Nuthatch plumage.
The Red-breasted Nuthatch breeding range extends across Canada and south along the mountainous regions of the West and the Northeast in the United States. Their breeding range is expanding southward.

In the past, Red-breasted Nuthatches' migration patterns have been irruptive: some years they've headed south, some years they haven't. During irruption years their southerly migration may begin as early as late summer and extend through fall and winter.
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hello cecilia,
lovely shot, i liked the composition very much, nice pob, the dof is perfect, nice colours,
well done,
tfs & regards
pankaj

hello Cecilia

excellent composition, i like that « like pastel colors » background,
good pov and i like the way the bird is framed on the image,
nice colors and details and has almost camouflage
with that tree branch, TFS

Asbed

Hi Cecilia.
Your composition is so nice. I am impressed with the clarity an the great focus. Eye catchlight worked well for you.

hi cecilia!
A red-breasted this time,fun to
see both and this one you show
very well with good sharpness
and nice pov and dof!
good work!

Hi Cecilia.
Beautifully done. Wonderful DOF, great exposure, sharpness and detail.

Kathleen

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  • Silke Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 753 W: 108 N: 1729] (5398)
  • [2007-10-18 5:10]

Ours don't have quite so brilliant a belly!
Must be our northern climes: freeze the colo9ur right out :D
Superb colours, details and composition
TFs
silke

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  • MMM Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 758 W: 0 N: 1515] (6934)
  • [2007-10-18 6:10]

Hi Cecilia.
Nice composition.Excellent POV and very sharp image whith great details in the plumage.BG colors are lovely
TFS Michel

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  • Dave Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 523 W: 47 N: 669] (2157)
  • [2007-10-18 7:23]

Very nice! Well worth posting another nuthatch when they look like this.
Bravo!

Don't be sorry elle est magnifique, les détails sont superbes et les couleurs naturelles, avec un beau Bg qui met le tout en valeur.
Bravo
Marie

Hello Cecilia,
Well composed and well framed always
perfect exposure and focus in sharpness, vivid colour and details
well done
cheers
tony

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  • EOSF1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1331 W: 108 N: 4848] (21470)
  • [2007-10-18 21:38]

So beautiful Cecilia ! A lovely little bird shot against a great background with great technical qualities. Very well done !

Mario

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  • horia Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2086 W: 216 N: 3770] (12506)
  • [2007-10-19 0:15]

Hi Cecilia and sorry for the delay

Nuthatch or not, this is yet another first class photo.
I guess we both feel somewhat the same: our subjects are mostly borring for us...but the TN world seems to welcome them :) I love yours, many people (including you) liked mine...yet we both feel wierd posting the same thing over and over again :)) I guess we could swithch some photos, so that i could post some lovely nuthatchs instead of damsels and dragons and vice-versa :)))))
Anyway, my compliments of this little jewel, full of sharp details and splendid well saturated colors.
I really like the pose you captured here - almost like pointing in that direction :)

Bravo and TFS
Horia

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  • hibou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 197 W: 1 N: 348] (1537)
  • [2007-10-19 17:18]

Hello Cecilia,
Please don't be sorry posting this PERFECT picture ... I realy have just one comment PERFECT. Congratulations and TFS
Donald

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  • arfer Gold Star Critiquer [C: 2731 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-10-19 20:20]

Hello Cecilia

A beautiful shot of this nuthatch.The focus is spot on with sharp details.Excellent colours.TFS

Rob

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3052 W: 148 N: 4559] (14727)
  • [2007-10-22 9:40]

Hi Cecilia.
What a cute scene and fine bird. What a nice tree branch and poetic BG. What is else? Ah. What a great Cecilia, who has created this charming masterpiece. Bravo and TFS.
Alexei.

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