Q: One winter we had an amazingly well-built cardinal nest in a shrub outside our kitchen window. It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in ...

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 ...

The chestnut-backed chickadee is curious about humans, and spends the postbreeding and winter seasons foraging noisily in mixed-species flocks. Unlike other parids (except for the mountain ...