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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. For ...

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Last weekend, as I was refilling the hulled sunflower seed feeder, two rival male black-capped chickadees began their spring rivalry. Hidden from sight within the evergreen hedge we share with Al and ...

How do birds, barefoot and covered only in fluff, survive cold? In the same conditions, we humans shiver in multi-layered high-tech insulation, fearing hypothermia. Consider our Carolina chickadees.

Even though the temperature was below zero this morning (something my little dog didn't really appreciate), two cardinals were in full song in the pre-dawn twilight. They enthusiastically sang back ...

FORBES, Minn. - It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday, Oct. 17. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the ...

Researchers in Anchorage are working to crack a tough nut in the form of a beak deformity affecting a large portion of black-capped chickadees and other birds in parts of Alaska, including the Kenai ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Earlier this week, the Round Rock Police Department pulled off a very important rescue. The department's animal control division rescued a baby chickadee that was found wandering ...

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