July 20, 2023 However, chickadees may be facing increasing challenges that will shape their future in the mountains. In 2017, a year with record-breaking snow levels, adult chickadees showed the ...

Examining and decoding bird calls is becoming an increasingly popular field of study, as scientists like me are discovering that many birds – including mountain chickadees – follow systematic rules to ...

However, chickadees may be facing increasing challenges that will shape their future in the mountains. In 2017, a year with record-breaking snow levels, adult chickadees showed the lowest ...

Facing a rapidly changing climate, birds that can quickly form new memories may survive better. “We hope to track how chickadee's spatial memory evolves under pressure from climate change. The good ...

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 ...

Chickadees with beaks over an inch long, the mandibles crossing each other like folded arms, are being found in disturbing numbers in Alaska. Other bird species also are showing this peculiar ...

Black-capped Chickadees don’t let food go to waste. These puffy little birds, with their oversize head and dark eyes resembling those of a Beanie Baby, are always hoarding extra grub such as ...

Yet for a long time, scientists couldn’t demonstrate that because it was unclear how to tell exactly if a lion or a crocodile or a mountain chickadee was actually smart or not. Our best shots ...

NEW YORK, NY — Black-capped chickadees have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter. Now scientists at Columbia's ...

Mountain chickadees have among the best spatial memory ... and looking for other caches," Padula said. A shifting climate Facing a rapidly changing climate, birds that can quickly form new ...