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title: "Canadese boomklever"
description: "Sitta canadensis — Vogels. The red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) is a small songbird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/red-breasted-nuthatch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Canadese boomklever

> Sitta canadensis — Vogels. The red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) is a small songbird.

- Scientific name: *Sitta canadensis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 55711
- Wikidata: [Q597684](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597684)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14823](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14823)

## Names

- en: Red-breasted Nuthatch
- de: Kanadakleiber
- es: Bajapalos Pecho Canela
- fr: Sittelle à poitrine rousse
- nl: Canadese boomklever
- pt: Trepadeira-azul-do-canadá
- pl: Kowalik czarnogłowy

## Countries with the most observations

US (30227), CA (20045), MX (50), DE (6)

## Summary

The red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a black crown. Its call, which has been likened to a tin trumpet, is high-pitched and nasal. It breeds in coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States. Though often a permanent resident, it regularly irrupts further south if its food supply fails. There are records of vagrants occurring as far south as the Gulf Coast and northern Mexico. It forages on the trunks…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-breasted_nuthatch

## Photo

![Canadese boomklever](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-breasted-nuthatch/medium.jpg)

Photo: Claude Lyneis · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133047361

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-breasted-nuthatch?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).