They know what they’re doing and they do it with dash, style and, frankly, charisma. Ask just about anyone to list their five ...

Watching chickadees flit through the treetops is like witnessing master acrobats at work. These adorable birds duck and dodge through branches as they hunt down small insects. Not only are these birds ...

Chickadees are friendly and adorable birds. Check out super cute chickadee pictures captured by backyard birders across ...

The birds of Alabama are back, reminding us that we’re not empty nesters at all; in fact, our nest is full if you count the birds that live in the backyard. One of them flies to the glass door each ...

How to identify: Like all chickadees, the mountain chickadee has striking black-and-white markings on the head and gray elsewhere. The white stripe over the eye identifies mountain chickadees from all ...

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 ...

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.

The black-capped chickadee is probably the most familiar bird of northern winters. It's common and easily recognized by sight and song. The chickadee is also bold and apparently fearless. This is one ...

The most widespread, numerous, and geographically variable chickadee, this bird brightens winter days at bird feeders and eagerly takes advantage of nest boxes. It is curious, with little or no fear ...