A black-capped chickadee perches on the property of Wildlife Recovery Association.

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.

Banner image: A black-capped chickadee perches on a tree branch in winter. (Credit: Amanda Frank) Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more ...

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 ...

Two Chickadee species may be seen in the Berkshires, provided you are lucky. The black-capped chickadee has been here year-round, and in many habitats from heavy woods to backyards.

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer ...

Chances are, the melodious namesake call of the black-capped chickadee has brightened your mood while walking, shoveling snow or pulling weeds: chickadee-dee-dee.

Chickadees are plump, sparrow-sized birds with tiny beaks. Mountain chickadees are a bit larger and stockier than the black-capped chickadee. Both species have a black cap and throat with a white ...

Despite its small physical size, the black-capped chickadee stands out among songbirds for its courage. Here is what these little birds have to teach us about ourselves.

Caption A genetically confirmed F1 black-capped and mountain chickadee hybrid found in Boulder County, CO in 2021 as part of the Boulder Chickadee Study. This female built an incomplete nest (the ...

Tiny, black-capped chickadees have big memories. They stash food in hundreds to thousands of locations in the wild – and then come back to these stashes when other food sources are low. Now ...