Spotted any Paridaes in your backyard lately? Chances are you have although you probably called them chickadees or titmice. Most birdwatchers don’t know that these two energetic feeder birds are ...

In our most recent birding column, we took a look at tufted titmice. Now come two more members of the titmouse family group with a different last name — chickadee. There are seven species of ...

If chickadees are active woodland sprites, their relative, the titmouse, is a curious imp with mischievous tendencies. The tufted titmouse’s song — a persistent repetition of “Peter! Peter! Peter!” — ...

Each spring many readers ask how to use nest boxes to attract eastern bluebirds, tufted titmice, Carolina and black-capped chickadees, and house and Carolina wrens. Many readers specifically ask how ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to literally have a wild bird in hand? Except for bird banders, few of us have ever had this experience — if we approach, birds fly off. But it is possible ...

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. For ...

I have previously written on the titmouse, a charming bird of raspy voice, lively demeanor and exceptional plainness. Titmice have a cousin that is equally lovable: the chickadee. At first glance ...

Each spring many readers ask how to use nest boxes to attract eastern bluebirds, tufted titmice, Carolina and black-capped chickadees, and house and Carolina wrens. Many readers specifically ask how ...

At a time when scientists consider a five- year experiment long-term, Gordon Loery’s work is an eternity. For 39 years, Loery has been studying black-capped chickadees in one of the longest-running ...

The Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) and the Juniper Titmouse (Baeolophus ridgwayi) are closely related, ecologically similar passerines sympatric in portions of their range. However, Mountain ...

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