Banner image: A black-capped chickadee perches on a tree branch in winter. (Credit: Amanda Frank) Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more ...

A black-capped chickadee holds a sunflower seed in its beak at 40 degrees below zero. (Photo by Ned Rozell) During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves ...

Most chickadees, the black-capped included, are talkative, with a whole repertoire of high, wheezy notes in addition to the trademark call. In spring, black-cappeds sing a loud two- to three-note ...

But when visitors ask me if the chickadee they’re seeing is a black-capped or a Carolina I just answer yes. In the Lehigh Valley and across into parts of New Jersey we’re in the chickadee ...

Black-capped chickadees are cavity nesters and will use nest boxes. Their varied diet includes insects, spiders and small invertebrates in addition to seeds, suet, berries and fruits.

The 5th season of the Boulder Chickadee Study is in full swing with many chickadees raising young in Boulder and eggs about to hatch the higher elevation sites! One of our landowners has set up a ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer ...

Two Chickadee species may be seen in the Berkshires, provided you are lucky. The black-capped chickadee has been here year-round, and in many habitats from heavy woods to backyards. It is one of our ...

Courageous: The black-capped chickadee is brave—its core feature, in fact, seems to be courage itself. It doesn’t care about the fact that it may not be the largest or most formidable.