Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus)

A distinctive group of feisty songbirds, chickadees and titmice are often the first to respond to "pishing" and are familiar backyard birds at feeders. In NC, Carolina Chickadees are found nearly statewide. Only at the highest ranges, roughly above 4500' - 5000' (for example in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Great Balsam Mountains), can one reliably find Black-capped Chickadees. Black-capped Chickadees are found coast to coast from Alaska south to California and east to the northern Atlantic states and provinces.
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Missoula Co., MT
19 July 2013
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Missoula Co., MT
19 July 2013
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Missoula Co., MT
19 July 2013

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Missoula Co., MT
24 Sep 2014

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Missoula Co., MT
14 Sep 2013
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Missoula Co., MT
14 Sep 2013

Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Quebec, Canada
5 Aug 2005

Very difficult to separate from Carolina Chickadee by sight.

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, Parus atricapillus) Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
Washington Co., ME
8 July 2011

Chickadees are very acrobatic as they dig into clusters of leaves or fruits in search of bugs & seeds.


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