Although the mountain chickadee is the black-capped’s closest relative, the Carolina chickadee likely will cause the most trouble, especially in late spring and summer when the black-capped’s ...

However, there is another creature with incredible memorization skills-black-capped chickadees. These small birds store away thousands of seeds and insects in preparation for the cold, harsh ...

Mountain chickadees in Boulder have evolved a different tune to avoid getting mixed up with their cousins, according to a new ...

Black-capped chickadees have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute ...

Black-capped and mountain chickadees are closely-related species that co-occur in Boulder County but occupy different habitats based on elevation. The Boulder Chickadee Study leverages an extensive ...

A bird that was sucked into an engine during an Alaska Airlines flight Sunday actually wasn’t such a rare event.

Some people flip houses, but Mother Nature is in the process of flipping birds. This week at Market Lake, the summer birds ...

Older birds don’t necessarily appreciate this and conflict is now brewing. I find it next to impossible to visually distinguish one black-capped chickadee from the next. When there are eight to nine ...

The chestnut-backed chickadee is curious about humans ... but it varies in intensity. The cap is dark brown, shading to black at its lower edge from the bill through the eye; the cheek is white ...

The second grade class at the John F. Kennedy Memorial School in Franklin felt there ought to be an official state insect.

The bird checklist for Maine currently stands at 475 species which includes resident birds who grace us with their presence ...

Black-capped chickadee males give a song with the cadence of “cheeseburger” or “hey curly,” used to attract a mate and deter competing males. Soft chip notes serve as contact calls to keep ...