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  • Black-capped Chickadee, 1 of 6
    Photo 1 of 6

    (c) Kent Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 2 of 6

    (c) Andrew Reding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Nick Tepper, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Ad Konings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Tom Preney, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 6 of 6

    (c) Kent Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Black-capped Chickadee

Poecile atricapillus

Worldwide
171,339 observations
Group
Birds

About

The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights as well as its good spatial memory to...

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