A Half-Ounce Black-Capped Chickadee Is A Winter Heavyweight

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Field Notes from the Montana Natural History Center

Miscellaneous


This summer, while watching white-crowned sparrows, pine siskins and Cassin's finches feeding on the sunflower seeds we’d scattered on the rail of the cabin porch, I had the experience of a black-capped chickadee eating out of my hand as I sat, statue-like, palm out, lifted and flat.