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Carolina Chickadee

Carolina Chickadee

The Carolina Chickadee is 4 inches long, has a wingspan of 6 inches and weighs only 12 grams. It has a small short bill and white cheeks. They have a black cap and bib, upperparts are gray and both male and female look the same.

The Carolina Chickadees live in the USA from New Jersey west to southern Kansas and south to Florida and Texas. They are permanent residents and don’t move south even during severe winter weather.

Carolina chickadees can lower their body temperatures and induce an intentional state of hypothermia called torpor. They do this so they can conserve energy during the extremely cold winters. A Carolina Chickadee can spend up to fifteen hours at a time in torpor, during this time they should not be picked up and handled because the stress of being held may cause their death.

The Carolina Chickadee and the Black-Capped Chickadee are so similar that where their living ranges overlap they mate with each other and create a hybrid chickadee.

One of the differences between the Carolina

Chickadee and the Black-Capped Chickadee is their song. The Carolina Chickadee sings a 4-note song and the Black-Capped Chickadee sings a 2-note song. The Hybrid Mix of those two Chickadees sings a 3-note song.

Carolina Chickadee with her babies.

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