The post A Chickadee's Brain Physically Grows Each Fall. Then It Shrinks Again in Spring appeared first on A-Z Animals. Every autumn, mountain chickadees prepare for one of the harshest winters in ...

Chickadees are food-storing specialists that hide tens of thousands of individual food items throughout the forest under edges of tree bark, or even between pine needles, each fall. Then, they use ...

If you’d like to see some new-to-you birds in Michigan this fall, listen for the sound of one of our most common birds: The Black-capped Chickadee. The chickadee’s namesake “chickadee-dee-dee” call is ...

RENO, Nev. — Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, ...

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 ...

Every autumn, mountain chickadees prepare for one of the harshest winters in North America by hiding thousands of individual seeds throughout the forest. Rather than storing food in a single location, ...

Mountain chickadees struggle with snow extremes. Benjamin Sonnenberg. Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, tugging a ...

Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, tugging a sled loaded with batteries, bolts, wire and 40 pounds of sunflower ...