white-breasted nuthatch

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   bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast; of eastern North America

   SynonymsSitta carolinensis

   Broadernuthatch

   Part ofSitta

Questions about white-breasted nuthatch

What does white-breasted nuthatch mean?

white-breasted nuthatch means "bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast; of eastern North America".

What is another word for white-breasted nuthatch?

Close synonyms include Sitta carolinensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white-breasted nuthatch a common word?

white-breasted nuthatch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.