Lost your keys? Can't remember where you parked the car? If only you had the memory of a mountain chickadee. These half-ounce ...

Peak bird migration is about to start in Utah and around the country. Here are tools for birding and how to identify the ...

Chickadees are plump, sparrow-sized birds with tiny beaks. Mountain chickadees are a bit larger and stockier than the black-capped chickadee. Both species have a black cap and throat with a white ...

Although the mountain chickadee is the black-capped’s closest relative, the Carolina chickadee likely will cause the most trouble, especially in late spring and summer when the black-capped’s ...

The chestnut-backed chickadee is curious about humans, and spends the postbreeding and winter seasons foraging noisily in mixed-species flocks. Unlike other parids (except for the mountain ...

Black-capped and mountain chickadees are closely-related species that co-occur in Boulder County but occupy different habitats based on elevation. The Boulder Chickadee Study leverages an extensive ...

I’ve been working as a research assistant dissecting chickadee nests as a part of Dr. Haley Kenyon’s project, which includes examining how nest composition differs between black-capped and mountain ...