Nuthatch

Name: Nuthatch

Scientific name: Sitta europea

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 50

What are nature stars?

About: A tit-sized bird, about 13cm long with a short tail, a large head and a woodpecker-like bill. Nuthatches are grey above, with a black eye stripe, white cheeks and throat and rusty buff belly. Nuthatches climb up and down tree trunks, feeding on insects an

How to identify: Unmistakeable

Where: England, Wales and southern Scotland.

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 30
• Agility: 70
• Rarity: 40
• Cute factor: 60
• Traveller: 30

Fantastic fact: Nuthatches are the only British bird that can climb head first down tree trunks, holding on with their strong feet.

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc