Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in ...

Black-capped and mountain chickadees are estimated to have diverged from a common ancestor over 2 million years ago, but they still overlap across many areas of the western U.S., including the Rocky ...

Most chickadees, the black-capped included, are talkative, with a whole repertoire of high, wheezy notes in addition to the trademark call. In spring, black-cappeds sing a loud two- to three-note ...

Courageous: The black-capped chickadee is brave—its core feature, in fact, seems to be courage itself. It doesn’t care about the fact that it may not be the largest or most formidable.

Black-capped chickadees have begun their spring song even on the coldest day of the year so far ... chickadees, cardinals, and blue jays can forage to find plenty of food to survive.

News; Sci/Tech; Cool Critters: Chickadees – charming, chatty and seriously cerebral Sun., March 2, 2025 Year-round residents of our region, the cute and perky black-capped chickadee also has a ...

Chickadees are plump, sparrow-sized birds with tiny beaks. Mountain chickadees are a bit larger and stockier than the black-capped chickadee. Both species have a black cap and throat with a ...