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 ...

In less than a month, Maine will start phasing out the chickadee license plates and replace them with the pine tree plates. The chickadee design has been around for more than 25 years. The secretary ...

The tables are set at the Seaport’s newest restaurant: Chickadee opens Tuesday, July 31, for lunch and dinner. Situated inside the Innovation and Design Building, the operator-owned spot aims to be a ...

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 ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - All Chickadee license plates are now retired in Maine. Mainers will now have the option to choose either a “Pine Tree” design as the standard license plate offering or “No Tree ...

A study finds that chickadee alarm calls are being understood by an entirely different breed of bird — the red-breasted nuthatch. Chris Templeton of the University of Washington says it makes sense ...

Mainers are bracing themselves for a big change: the state license plate featuring a chickadee is being replaced by a pine tree − a reference to an old flag from 1901 that's making a popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountain chickadees are unusual in having more complex calls than songs. Vladimir Pravosudov I approach a flock of mountain ...

The chickadee's unerring spatial memory is remarkable enough, says Colin Saldanha, assistant professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University and an anatomist who has studied songbirds for ...