Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our ...

They nest in dead aspens because the soft wood is easy to excavate. Like all other chickadees, these birds stash food away ...

Anyone who puts up a feeder in their backyard is probably acquainted with chickadees. I was lucky enough to grow up with parents who were really into backyard bird feeding and have known these ...

A variety of bird species also feed on these winter food sources: Blue Jays, waxwings, Hermit Thrushes, Yellow-rumped ...

The most widespread, numerous, and geographically variable chickadee, this bird brightens winter days at bird feeders and eagerly takes advantage of nest boxes. It is curious, with little or no ...

Many of Canada’s non-migrant birds rely on foraging for seeds and insects to meet their nutritional needs. Those resources, ...

and this can attract other birds interested in the same diet. You see this with chatty chickadees attracting warblers, woodpeckers, brown creepers and other birds to form a brief foraging flock.

One look at the photo, and I instantly understood both the observer's confusion and the mystery bird's identity. It turned out to be a black-capped chickadee with a condition known as “leucism” ...