Chickadee

Two species of chickadees.

The chickadees are a group of North American birds in the family

Their name reputedly comes from the fact that their calls make a distinctive "chick-a-dee-dee-dee",[3] though their normal call is actually "fee-bee," and the "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" call is an alarm call. The number of "dees" depends on the predator.^[4]

The chickadee (specifically the black-capped chickadee Poecile atricapillus, formerly Parus atricapillus) is the official bird for the US state of Massachusetts,^[5] the Canadian province of New Brunswick,^[6] and the city of Calgary, Alberta.^[7] The chickadee is also the state bird of Maine, but a species has never been specified. A proposed bill in 2019 would have named the black-capped chickadee as the official species for Maine, but was unanimously voted down in committee.^[8][9] The De facto species for Maine remains the black-capped.

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Chickadees are native to North America, where they are very common. In North America, the birds are found from the East Coast to the West Coast, and from Canada to Mexico. Chickadees' preferred habitats include mixed deciduous or coniferous forests, parks, open woods, cottonwood groves, willow thickets, and disturbed areas.[10]

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Mountain chickadees are

• Black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
• Boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus)
• Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
• Chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens)
• Grey-headed chickadee (Poecile cinctus)
• Mexican chickadee (Poecile sclateri)
• Mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli)

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