Chickadees are plump, sparrow-sized birds with tiny beaks. Mountain chickadees are a bit larger and stockier than the black-capped chickadee. Both species have a black cap and throat with a white ...

Want to have a true firsthand birding experience? Take a handful of birdseed — preferably black oil sunflower seeds — and stand outside, holding the seed in your flat open palm at about eye level. If ...

With a tiny whoosh of wings, a mountain chickadee, coming in from behind me, landed on my head. I could feel its tiny feet as it pranced around on my beanie in typical hyper chickadee style. I was ...