Showing posts with label Poecile atricapillus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poecile atricapillus. Show all posts

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Black-capped Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee

Poecile atricapillus










  • Typically the Black-capped Chickadee possesses a somewhat long-tail the very same colors as the wings minus the whitened trimming.  

  • This Chickadee would rather live in places with woodlands like recreational areas, willow thickets, as well as cottonwood growth of trees without underbrush.  

  • The chickadee is usually 4 to 5 inches long and has a wingspan of 6 to 7 inches long.  

  • A chickadee jumps from limb to limb feeding on the bugs, caterpillars and also spiders it finds on trees and shrubs.  

  • The Black-capped Chickadee is readily identified by the small plump body, good black color top and covering on the chest and white colored cheeks.  

  • That chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) possesses a black top which comes right down to the base of the eye and the top of beak.  

  • A chickadee will have one mate so when a couple binds, they will stay with each other forever.  

  • A Chickadee may be found in Canada, Alaska plus the upper half of the USA.  

  • Maine selected this black-capped chickadee to be the official state bird in 1927.  

  • For one little bird, it possesses a insatiable urge for food.    

  • The Black-Capped Chickadee boasts fifteen distinct songs.  

  • Any time you are constructing a birdhouse for your Black-capped Chickadee, it might be beneficial to make it of red cedar.