Q: Do birds of one species “talk” to other bird species? A: That’s an excellent question and the answer falls into the “It depends” category. We hear birds singing loudly in the spring, but each ...

In a small wooden box strapped to a lodgepole pine sits a plump mountain chickadee. She lifts her small bill and white eyebrows and flies out, revealing five chicks that are a week old. Bony and ...

How do birds, barefoot and covered only in fluff, survive cold? In the same conditions, we humans shiver in multi-layered high-tech insulation, fearing hypothermia. Consider our Carolina chickadees.

Do we really need highly trained meteorologists to tell us when a storm is coming? Not if we watch the birds at our feeders, and notice when they pick up the pace, snatching seeds in a near frenzy.

There’s something special about chickadees. They’re curious (they’ll come investigate if you make a pish-pish-pish sound), they’re smart (they stash seeds to eat over the winter), and they’re so ...

Todd M. Freeberg received funding from the National Science Foundation. Carolina chickadees are small, boisterous year-round residents of the southeastern United States. They are regularly found with ...

It seems like common sense that being smart should increase the chances of survival in wild animals. Yet for a long time, scientists couldn’t demonstrate that because it was unclear how to tell ...

Not only do mountain chickadees live in our backyard – so does resident chickadee expert Vladimir Pravosudov, a professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Pravosudov started studying the ...