Portland Press Herald

Fourth-graders make their case for which chickadee should be state bird

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Surrounded by Margaret Chase Smith fourth-grade students, state Rep. Betty ...
inforum

A fall fairytale: Scientists hang 500 birdhouses to study boreal chickadees

FORBES, Minn. - It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday, Oct. 17. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the ...
Sun Journal

Black-capped or boreal: Which chickadee is the state bird?

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. FALMOUTH — Mainers have been driving around with a black-capped chickadee on ...
SaltWire

BRUCE MACTAVISH: How to tell the difference between NL's two types of chickadees

Identifying the two chickadees is fairly easy with a good look. Black-capped chickadees have black caps, a bright white cheek ...
Daily Inter Lake

Bird of the Month: Boreal chickadee

I have to admit that a good part of my attraction to tree-line in Northwest Montana - aside from pikas in the talus, whitebark pines, nutcrackers and rosy finches - is the 50-50 chance of a ...
Star Tribune

What goes into a bird’s name?

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 ...
Duluth News Tribune

Scientists hang 500 birdhouses in Sax-Zim Bog to study boreal chickadees

It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the earth were trees decades ...
The Montana Standard

Montana Birding: The problem with rarities; Boreal Chickadee sighting in Butte questioned

Tom Bower's photo a boreal chickadee is pictured here. Other birders contend it's a black-capped chickadee, and that a stem obscures the head, making it appear brown. The birders say other field marks ...
Kennebec Journal

Skowhegan students ponder: Which chickadee – boreal or black cap – is the real Maine state bird?

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The Montana Standard

Montana Birding: Rare boreal chickadee found in Butte

Every fall you can count on someone in the state finding a rare bird — or a bird that lives in Montana but has been found in an area that it is not normally seen. So it was this fall. Tom Bowler of ...
WBUR

Cardinals in, boreal chickadees out: New atlas shows changing bird populations in a warmer Maine

Forty years ago, Maine wildlife officials and local birders joined up to create the first Atlas of Breeding Birds in Maine. The five-year survey documented the range of avian species nesting and ...
Portland Press Herald

Fourth-graders make their case for which chickadee should be the state bird

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