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.