On nearly every one of my daily walks in the neighborhood in January, a black-capped chickadee calls its name. It doesn’t matter if it’s snowing, cold, raining, gloomy or sunny, and if no other birds ...

Biologists know that climate change is causing southern species' ranges to move northward in the Northern Hemisphere. But little research has been done on the indirect ways climate change is ...

Northern Michigan winters are not for the faint of heart. Never easy for man, nor beast, nor bird. There’s one small but mighty species that sticks it out. Chief photojournalist Corey Adkins and ...

I sometimes hear Georgians refer to the little black-and-white bird coming to their feeders as the black-capped chickadee. Actually, in Georgia, it would be the Carolina chickadee, one of the state’s ...

Ben Sonnenberg, a doctoral student in the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology program, studies chickadees with Vladimir Pravosudov. Sonnenberg has coauthored many publications about the ...

Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new CU Boulder ...

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

NORTH SLOPE, Alaska — “Chick chick whirrr, chick whirrr.” Although it was a recorded birdsong that chattered through each of the poplar stands we entered, I still occasionally caught myself believing ...

Chickadees have been flocking to birdfeeders as snow engulfs the area. They are cute, happy-looking birds. With a cheery 'chick-a-dee' call they seem to whistle in the face of a storm. I've often ...

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

New research on northern (black-capped) and southern (Carolina) species of chickadees offers some answers. Amber Rice, assistant professor of biological science at Lehigh and her co-author Michael A.