I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada’s diverse pine cone crop, fill the ...

There's more than meets the human ear when the black-capped chickadee lets its flock mates know a predator is lurking about by giving out its familiar "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" call. The small songbirds, ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Dec., 2004), pp. 187-196 (10 pages) Chick-a-dee calls in many chickadee (Poecile) species are common vocal signals used in a diversity of social ...

GRAND FORKS – The black-capped chickadee makes its second appearance as bird of the week in this calendar year, and the circumstances driving the choice are the same. When I tell you the previous ...

Members of the Pravosudov lab catch and release resident chickadees to attach identifying bands that allow the researchers to track individual birds.(Sofia Haley) I spend my days out at our field site ...

(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 ...