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Grey-headed chickadee (North American name) or Siberian tit (European name) Poecile cinctus: subarctic Scandinavia and northern Asia, and also into North America in Alaska and the far northwest of Canada Chestnut-backed chickadee: Poecile rufescens: Pacific Northwest of the United States and western Canada, from southern Alaska to southwestern ...
The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit (Poecile cinctus), formerly Parus cinctus, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout subarctic Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic , and also into North America in Alaska and the far northwest of Canada.
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 ...
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Black-capped chickadees make a number of other calls and sounds, such as a gargle noise usually used by males to indicate a threat of attacking another male, often when feeding. This call is also used in sexual contexts. [26] Black-capped chickadees learn the gargle noise soon after birth and continues to develop it through to adulthood. [19]
Chickadee: Poecile, species not specified (de facto Poecile atricapillus) [24] 1927 [25] Maryland: Baltimore oriole: Icterus galbula: 1947 [26] Massachusetts: Black-capped chickadee: Poecile atricapilla: 1941 [27] Michigan: American robin: Turdus migratorius: 1931 [28] Minnesota: Common loon: Gavia immer: 1961 [29] Mississippi: Northern ...
Other calls are used for signalling alarm—a well-known example being the "chic-a-dee-dee" of North American species in the genus Poecile, the call which gives them their local common name, the chickadee. The call also serves as a rallying call to summon others to mob and harass the predator.