Black-Capped Chickadee

The soft and gentle whistles of the chickadees outside your window wake you as you slowly open your eyes to a new day. Their joyous and expectant calls to one another urge you to greet the morning with vigor and enthusiasm.

The Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, North American songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is notable for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (they can feed from the hand).