NORTH SLOPE, Alaska — “Chick chick whirrr, chick whirrr.” Although it was a recorded birdsong that chattered through each of the poplar stands we entered, I still occasionally caught myself believing ...
A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...
Another email I received stated, “Hi Gary! I read your MT Standard article, and that bird is a Black-capped Chickadee. It does look superficially like a Boreal, but that brown cap is an artifact of an ...