Chickadee eggs are white with small reddish-brown spots. The eggs of these cavity-nesting birds are rarely seen by most birders because the species does not usually choose artificial nest boxes.

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When the nest is in top form, we know that the eggs and young have a good chance to become healthy mature birds. The entire nesting process is inspirational and I enjoy and thrive on a diet of ...

A chickadee didn’t need to be a genius to survive; it just needed to be good at its job. Testing bird brains “Chickadees cache one food item in one location, and they do this across a big area.

News; Sci/Tech; Cool Critters: Chickadees – charming, chatty and seriously cerebral Sun., March 2, 2025 Year-round residents of our region, the cute and perky black-capped chickadee also has a ...

Egg prices have skyrocketed to all-time highs due in part to an outbreak of avian flu, or bird flu, that has been afflicting egg-laying hens in the US since 2022.

Birds that typically stay in Michigan over the winter can handle even ... "Even a bird like the black-capped chickadee which is really tiny — less than 10 grams — its feathers can keep ...

Last year, bird flu killed more than 40 million egg-laying birds. Including ducks and chickens, 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized since H5N1 began spreading around the U.S. in 2022.

Many other birds, including chickadees, cardinals and house finches, will eat safflower (and in the spring, the rose-breasted grosbeaks seem to seek out this seed).