Chickadees are friendly and adorable birds. Check out super cute chickadee pictures captured by backyard birders across ...

January 5th is National Bird Day, and the black-capped chickadee serves as a familiar and resilient symbol of the ...

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 ...

A new study, published in the high impact journal Science, confirms enhanced cognitive abilities can be associated with longer lifespan in mountain chickadees. While there is no denying ‘survival of ...

Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new CU Boulder ...

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 ...

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 ...