Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus

Life History

Reference(s)

Foote, J. R., L. P. Fitzsimmons, D. J. Mennill, and L. M. Ratcliffe. 2008. Tied to the nest: male black-capped chickadees decrease dawn chorus movement behaviour when their mate is fertile, Animal Behaviour, 76:1227-1233.

Fort, K. T., and K. A. Otter. 2004. Effects of habitat disturbance on reproduction in Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapills) in northwestern British Columbia, The Auk, 121(4):1070-1080.

Koenig, W. D., and J. M. H. Knops. 2001. Seed-crop size and eruptions of North American boreal seed-eating birds, Journal of Animal Ecology, 70:609-620.

Mennill, D. J., S. M. Doucet, R. Montgomerie, and L. M. Ratcliffe. 2003. Achromatic color variation in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapilla: black and white signals of sex and rank, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 53:350-357.

Smith, S. M. 1993. Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), The Birds of North America Online, . A. Poole, Ed. Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; Retrieved from The Birds of North America Online database: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/039