Our Outreach Coordinator Shenandoah Marr responded to a request from a nine-year-old girl for a volunteer project on birds with the suggestion to research a species she likes and write a report. Here’s what came back:
Black-capped Chickadee
By Serenity Shaeffer
What I like:
It’s a really cute tiny bird and it’s fluffy and makes a cute sound.
What I learned:
They have a bird friend for life most of the time.
They live 2 to 3 years, sometimes 5 to 10.
Oldest one was 12 years and 5 months.
They constantly watch for predators, and they make a cool alarm sound if they see one that warns other birds and even squirrels.
In the winter they sleep in trees or under houses so they can be warm and dry.
They eat seeds and berries, they love black oil sunflower seeds.
Usually when they come out of small tree spots they can have a bent tail because they squished themselves in.
They are not a finch .
