Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountain chickadees are unusual in having more complex calls than songs. Vladimir Pravosudov I approach a flock of mountain ...

Ask just about anyone to list their five favorite birds and black-capped chickadees invariably make the cut. We all love chickadees for their acrobatic activity, devil-may-care attitude and funny ...

Here’s the Central Texas bird forecast for the month, courtesy of Travis Audubon. Learn more about Central Texas birds and bird-related events for all ages at ...

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 ...

Although their brain is just slightly bigger than a pea, chickadees have quite the memory. A recently released study from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Nevada found that ...

Q: One winter we had an amazingly well-built cardinal nest in a shrub outside our kitchen window. It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in the ...

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — This New Year, resolve to learn some of our common backyard birds. It’s satisfying to attach a name to a face, and might deepen your connection with individual species. If you ...

Predation is driver of many fascinating and diverse defensive strategies in prey species. I am interested in studying the causes of variation seen in chickadee defensive hissing. We typically expect a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sofia Marie Haley, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) I approach a flock of ...