We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Spring is in the air, and with that, a chorus of birds, especially if you live in the Northeast. While some birds are flying back north from a ...

The temperature at dawn Jan. 3 was a brisk 8 degrees; the afternoon warmed to the 20s with wind. The forecast snowfall started at about dusk and continued for the whole next day. There was about 2 ...

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FORBES, Minn. - It was a fairytale in the Sax-Zim bog on Wednesday, Oct. 17. A beautiful solitude held still, with rolling mounds of moss and vegetation snuggled into the ground. Shooting out of the ...

How to identify: Like all chickadees, the mountain chickadee has striking black-and-white markings on the head and gray elsewhere. The white stripe over the eye identifies mountain chickadees from all ...

A: I have long wondered why myself. First the reason why: Black-capped chickadees do not have powerful bills and must hammer away at sunflower seeds, and other seeds as well. They could hammer away at ...

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 ...