When black-capped chickadees and some other birds in the Anchorage area began turning up in the late 1990s with elongated, weirdly curved or twisted beaks, biologists and bird lovers began to worry.

Researchers in Anchorage are working to crack a tough nut in the form of a beak deformity affecting a large portion of black-capped chickadees and other birds in parts of Alaska, including the Kenai ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998. The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska’s largest city with ...

During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long nights was a ...

During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long nights was a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Boreal Chickadee Parus hudsonicus is shown to store large amounts of seeds, insects, and spiders in trees. Each store point (bark crevice, ...

A little black and white bird ubiquitous to many across the United States may soon offer some insight into why species evolve the way they do—with the help of a $1.75 million grant awarded to a ...

Did the boreal chickadee survive in a single or multiple glacial refugia, and can the location of the refugia be identified? As the current distribution of boreal chickadees is widespread and includes ...

When black-capped chickadees and some other birds in the Anchorage area began turning up in the late 1990s with elongated, weirdly curved or twisted beaks, biologists and bird lovers began to worry.