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Black-capped Chickadee -
(Poecile atricapilla) 

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Identification

  • Very small songbird
  • Grey body and tail, black and white head
  • Black on top of head and on throat ("bib")
  • 5" (14 cm.)

Habitat

  • Forests, shrubby and residential areas

Additional Information

  • Common resident
  • Nests in tree cavities and nest boxes
  • Familiar feeder bird
  • Gregarious except during breeding season
  • Whistles two-note mating song,
         gives "chick-a-dee" call, and many
         other vocalizations

Black-capped Chickadee close up

Black-capped Chickadee in a spruce tree 

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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