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Red-Breasted Nuthatch

Date
  • 1900/1940
Description
  • 12. Red-Breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis. About 5" long. Has 4-8 young in a brood. Eats insects, nuts and hard seeds. Wedges them in a branch cleft and breaks the shell with its chisel-like bill. Habitat is forest and thicket, usually near civilization. Nests in hollow trees. Forestry Story - The damp, long winters and mild summers coupled with good forest soil produces long-fibered wood of unusual strength in Douglas fir regions of Washington and Oregon. Douglas fir is native to this area.
Subject
Work Type
Identifier
  • P217:47:12
Local Collection Name
Is Part Of
  • Set 46 - Forest Animals
Institution
Submission Date
  • 09/19/2016
Modified
  • 05/30/2023
Collections

APA

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MLA

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Chicago

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Red-Breasted Nuthatch" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-20. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df716n403

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Birds http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014310
2 Nuthatches http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093446
3 slides (photographs) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300128371
4 color photographs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300128359
5 Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_217
6 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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