Black-Capped Chickadee Parus atricapillus
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Food A Chickadee feeds upside down and eats insect eggs and larvae on the underside of branches.
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Migration In winter, Chickadees join mixed flocks of woodpeckers, nuthatchers, kinglets, creepers and roam the woods. Sometimes they move south in large groups. In the summer, they leave the flock and nest.
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Habitat Forest and open woodlands, suburban areas during the summer.
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Nesting Chickadees lay 3-4 blue-green brown-spotted eggs in a cup close to the end of a horizontal branch 10-20 feet above the ground.
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