On nearly every one of my daily walks in the neighborhood in January, a black-capped chickadee calls its name. It doesn’t matter if it’s snowing, cold, raining, gloomy or sunny, and if no other birds ...

New research on northern (black-capped) and southern (Carolina) species of chickadees offers some answers. Amber Rice, assistant professor of biological science at Lehigh and her co-author Michael A.

Northern Michigan winters are not for the faint of heart. Never easy for man, nor beast, nor bird. There’s one small but mighty species that sticks it out. Chief photojournalist Corey Adkins and ...

The black-capped chickadee is probably the most familiar bird of northern winters. It's common and easily recognized by sight and song. The chickadee is also bold and apparently fearless. This is one ...

I sometimes hear Georgians refer to the little black-and-white bird coming to their feeders as the black-capped chickadee. Actually, in Georgia, it would be the Carolina chickadee, one of the state’s ...

February is National Bird Feeding Month! What does this mean? This is the time for all of us to help birds survive the harsh winter months, and provide what is needed for them to flourish throughout ...

Chickadees have been flocking to birdfeeders as snow engulfs the area. They are cute, happy-looking birds. With a cheery 'chick-a-dee' call they seem to whistle in the face of a storm. I've often ...

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 ...

During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where chickadees spent those long nights was a ...

Biologists know that climate change is causing southern species' ranges to move northward in the Northern Hemisphere. But little research has been done on the indirect ways climate change is ...