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The black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Maine and Massachusetts and the provincial bird of New Brunswick. [64] [65] [66] In 2022 the black-capped chickadee was named the official bird of Calgary, Alberta. [67] The bird is prominently featured on the standard Maine vehicle registration plate. [68]
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. [9] [10] The de facto species for Maine remains the black-capped.
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 ...
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The Mountain Chickadee is one of 55 species of Chickadees and Tits. [5] The mountain chickadee can be distinguished from other North American chickadees because mountain chickadees are marked with a white line through the side of their black cap, whereas all other North American chickadees have a solid black-cap.
The boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus) is a small passerine songbird in the tit family Paridae. It is found in the boreal forests of Alaska, Canada and the northern United States and remains within this range all year. [ 2 ]
The Mexican chickadee (Poecile sclateri) is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is still often placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships (Gill et al. , 2005).
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. [6]