A mountain chickadee peers down from its perch in a ponderosa pine. Click here for larger image. Photo by Jeff Mitton. As the most recent glaciers subsided, ponderosa pines move north from their ...

Western animal behavior and cognition researchers tracked the spatial cognition and lifespan of 227 mountain chickadees for more than a decade. They found the birds with better spatial learning and ...

As the most recent glaciers subsided, ponderosa pines move north from their southern refuges. But it was not a solitary journey, for the pines brought along a community of dependent species. Ponderosa ...

Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new CU Boulder ...

Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, in a cabinet ...

Mountain chickadees in Boulder have evolved a different tune to avoid getting mixed up with their cousins, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder published Oct. 9 in the ...

Did the boreal chickadee survive in a single or multiple glacial refugia, and can the location of the refugia be identified? As the current distribution of boreal chickadees is widespread and includes ...

Almost every yard in Victoria and adjacent counties has a family of these little black-and-white birds. They are one of our most common songbirds, and yet they constantly get overlooked for the more ...

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 ...

While there is no denying ‘survival of the fittest’ still reigns supreme in the animal kingdom, a new study shows being smartest – or at least smarter – is pretty important, too. Western University ...