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. Here in the Inland Northwest, this ...

Birds don’t get enough credit for the magnificent creatures they are. Many people have heard a black-capped chickadee trilling or chirping in their backyard but fail to realize evolution has ...

Mountain chickadees in Boulder have evolved a different tune to avoid getting mixed up with their cousins, according to a new CU Boulder-led study published Oct. 9 in the Journal of Evolutionary ...

Mountain chickadees in Boulder have evolved a different tune to avoid getting mixed up with their cousins, according to a new CU Boulder-led study published Oct. 9 in the Journal of Evolutionary ...

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

Black-capped chickadees have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have ...

Each morning, after making coffee, my wife and I fill the distinctive, barn-red bird feeder that hangs down between our back deck and Illinois Mountain. As we fill the feeder, we whistle to signal to ...

NEW YORK, NY — Black-capped chickadees have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman ...

Each morning, after making coffee, my wife and I fill the distinctive, barn-red bird feeder that hangs down between our back deck and Illinois Mountain. As we fill the feeder, we whistle to signal to ...

Chickadees replace 30 percent of their old neurons to make room for new memories in their hippocampus. The expansion of the hippocampus is one of the most impressive aspects of any bird. Seasonal ...

Black-capped chickadee is perched on a snowy stump with seed mix in winter park and eating.© Saeedatun/Shutterstock.com Birds don't get enough credit for the magnificent creatures they are. Many ...