If you notice a chickadee with a white stripe on its head, it’s probably a mountain chickadee.These little birds forage in high coniferous Western forests, from Canada to near the Rio Grande.

Black-capped and mountain chickadees are estimated to have diverged from a common ancestor over 2 million years ago, but they still overlap across many areas of the western U.S., including the Rocky ...

One researcher’s studies found that black-capped chickadees can gain an additional 10% of their body weight each day by stuffing themselves, before using that fat to shiver all night to stay warm.

For black-capped chickadees, that means Poecile atricapillus for the Latin name, and any number of regional names. Bird names, both common and scientific, try to help clarify which bird is which.

One might look out the window, see a chickadee at the feeder and think, “There’s that chickadee,” as if it’s the same individual bird that you’ve been seeing all your life. The reason for this is easy ...

Black-capped chickadees' cranial capacity expands up to 30%, ... You’ve also been known to dash around looking for your hat, forgetting that it’s already on your head.

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

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 ...

Black-capped Chickadees don’t let food go to waste. These puffy little birds, with their oversize head and dark eyes resembling those of a Beanie Baby, are always hoarding extra grub such as ...

Chickadees have become a symbol of holiday cheer. Their images can be found painted on greeting cards, packaging material and on ornaments. But there is much more to chickadees that meets the eye.

Black-Capped Chickadees Are Masters of Memory—and Scientists Are Finding Out Why The small birds use brain “barcodes” to remember where they stash food, according to new research ...