Carolina Chickadee Bird Facts

THE CAROLINA CHICKADEE BIRD

Have you ever seen this birdy? Is it a cute adorable one same as my last post of the bird. I decided to share some of the information's with you guys! Let's start now!

The Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is often placed in the genus Parus with most other tits. But mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships (Gill et al., 2005). The American Ormithologists' Union has been treating Poecile as distinct genus since 1998.

Their breeding habitat is mixed or deciduous woods in the United States from New Jersey west to southern Kansas and south to Florida and Texas; there is a gap in the range at high altitudes in the Appalachian Mountains where they are replaced by their otherwise more northern relative, the black-capped chickadee. They nest in a hole in a tree; the pair excavates the nest, using a natural cavity or sometimes an old woodpecker nest. They may interbreed with black-capped chickadees where the ranges overlap, which can make identification difficult. They are permanent residents, not usually moving south even in severe winter weather.

The calls and song between the Carolina chickadee and the black-capped chickadee differ subtly to an experienced ear: The Carolina chickadee's chick-a-dee  call is faster and higher pitched than that of the black-capped chickadee, and the Carolina chickadee has a four note fee-bee-fee-bay song, whereas the black-capped omits the high notes. I dentification is very difficult even with an excellent view.  The most famous call is the familiar chick-a-dee-dee-dee which gave this bird its name and its song is fee-bee-fee-bay. Carolina chickadees are so similar to black-capped chickadees that they themselves have trouble telling their species apart. Because of this they sometimes mate producing hybrids. The most obvious difference between the three chickadee is that the Carolina chickadee songs four-note song, black-capped sing two-note songs, and the hybrids sing three-note songs.

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