Bird names, both common and scientific, try to help clarify which bird is which. A black-capped chickadee by any other name ...

To attract and identify the types of chickadees in North America, learn about chickadee songs, favorite foods and where they ...

Even for serious bird-watchers, Black-capped Chickadees and Carolina Chickadees are tough to tell apart. Both are members of ...

Two chickadees were feeding at black oil sunflower feeders ... the male dies and sometimes the female cuts off and eats his head. After mating the female lives long enough to deposit egg pods ...

The next time you listen to or imagine the telltale alarm call of a chickadee, you will hear it make the sound of its ...

This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in ...

Chickadees are small ... Of all 12 species of North American swallow, the female tree swallow has the truest black head, ...

This species is the smallest chickadee in North America. One of the 3 “brown-backed” species (along with boreal and gray-headed), its ... shading to black at its lower edge from the bill ...

Perhaps one of the most beautiful and interesting of birds to look at, these bright beauties are red from head to ... thanks to their black cap-like markings, Black-capped Chickadees are one ...

When not breeding, the red-breasted can be seen in small flocks with other nuthatches, chickadees ... Adult female: similar to male, but black on head is paler, more lead-colored, often ...

Yet for a long time, scientists couldn’t demonstrate that because it was unclear how to tell exactly if a lion or a crocodile or a mountain chickadee was actually smart or not. Our best shots ...

Humans have a propensity to organize, to put things into boxes. People who try to pigeon-hole nature often do not fare well ...