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 ...

In parts of the Rocky Mountains, these small, plump birds co-exist with a closely related species. To better distinguish ...

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.

Black-capped chickadees are their close relatives. The two birds look very similar, except that mountain chickadees have a pair of white eyebrow-like stripes above their eyes. Black-capped ...

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

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 ...

Some people complain about the weather. It’s “what they do.” Too sunny. Too hot. Too breezy. Too cold. Too rainy. The list ...

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

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 ...

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