Cormorant shown in the Department's Surveys. 
     
    

    
     Letters were written in support of endangered species, Great Cormorant 
     
     conservation, and saving the Baltic Bog. Intervention to limit nesting by Greater 
     
     Black-backed Gulls at the Hillsborough Pier Tern Colony led to another successful 
     
     breeding season for the terns. On the financial end, the Society had revenues of 
     
     $5,233.04 and expenditures of $4,466.55 for a surplus of $766.49. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BIRD MONOGRAPHS: by Donald Wilkinson 
     
     RED-BREASTED NUTBATCH (Sitta canadensis) 
     
    
   
   
    
     PASSERIFORMES 
     
     SITTIDAE - Nuthatches 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Species: 28-46-011 
     
    
   
   
    
     Distribution: Limits of northern tree-line, from southeast Alaska, east through 
     
    

    
     Canada to Newfoundland; also nesting south to southern California, southeast Arizona, 
     
    

    
     Colorado, and Wyoming, then narrow band across United States to northern Michigan; 
     
    

    
     also southern Ontario, through Appalachians to eastern Tennessee and western North 
     
    

    
     Carolina; also southern New York, western Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Winters 
     
    

    
     irregularly through Unites states and Maritimes, except Florida. 
     
    

    
     Nest: Usually making a cavity in a well-rotted tree stub or branch of a dead 
     
    

    
     tree, 4.5 m (15 ft.) above ground, but may nest at higher elevation in 
     
    

    
     tree. Sometimes uses abandoned woodpecker sites and bird boxes. Smears 
     
    

    
     the entrance hole with pitch and lines the inside with grasses, rootlets, 
     
    

    
     mosses, etc. Inhabits forests of balsam fir, white spruce, and other 
     
    

    
     conifers. 
     
    

    
     Usually 5 to 6; white, finely spotted with brown shades. 
     
    

    
     Mainly seeds of pine, spruce, fir, and other conifers; also insects such 
     
    

    
     as wasps, beetles, spruce budworm moths, etc. Will visit bird feeders 
     
    

    
     for suet and sunflower seed and will pick up seeds from the ground. 
     
    

    
     Song: Normal call a high-pitched, slow, nasal ank, ank, ank, but it also uses it, it, 
     
     it or hit notes. 
     
    

    
     Size: 11 to 12 cm (4.5 to 4.75 inches). 
     
    

    
     Note: In trees, this species is often seen going head-down the tree. 
     
    
   
   
    
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