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Podcast: BirdNote Daily
Episode: A Tool-Using Nuthatch
Description: The nuthatch’s beak is all business. Long, slender, sharp: it can pluck a tiny spider from a crevice in the bark or carve a nest hole right through the outer hide of a tree. And the Brown-headed Nuthatch is even known to use tools! Picking up a flake of pine bark in its beak, the bird uses it as a lever to pry up the bark scales on a tree and get to the insects below. A resourceful bird, the nuthatch.More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our wee...