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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chickadees are known for being so curious and bold that they will eat right out of your hand and land on feeders just as you are filling them. There are seven different species of chickadee in the ...

We assessed the effects of winter food supplementation on differential survival between sex, age and dominance classes, and the effects of feeding and territorial defense on breeding density in a ...

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 ...

Last Thursday morning it was pleasant and cool on the porch as I drank my morning coffee and watched two ruby-throated hummingbirds spar. It was a nice break from the hot, humid day before, although ...

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 ...