White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)

From Necedah National Wildlife Refuge:

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Have you ever watched white-breasted nuthatches cache their food? Cornell points out that in order to keep a stashed seed’s location secret a female nuthatch will try to deceive other birds. She will fly away from a seed source in an opposite direction of the cache location! 
Photo: White-breasted nuthatch by Katie Goodwin/USFWS 




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