During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where chickadees spent those long nights was ...

Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new CU Boulder ...

There are seven different species of chickadees in the U.S. All of them have snazzy dark caps and black bibs. Black-capped chickadees are found at feeders throughout much of the continent ...

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 ...

Chances are, the melodious namesake call of the black-capped chickadee has brightened your mood while walking, shoveling snow or pulling weeds: chickadee-dee-dee. Here in the Inland Northwest ...

Black-capped chickadees' ability to remember where they've stashed food helps them survive barren winters. Pexels Every fall, black-capped chickadees cache thousands of seeds, insects and other ...

Mountain chickadees are a bit larger and stockier than the black-capped chickadee. Both species have a black cap and throat with a white cheek but look for a white stripe above the eye to identify ...

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.

It turned out to be a black-capped chickadee with a condition known as “leucism” (pronounced Luke-is-m). In June, I wrote a column about leucism in some red squirrels that were coming to my feeders, ...

Our last column focused on Juncos. This week, we will focus in a lesser manner on two other feeder birds, the black-capped chickadee and the more recent addition, the house finch. Let us begin with ...