Boreal Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee: Large chickadee, brown upperparts, dark brown cap, small black bib, gray face and neck, white cheek, rufous sides, white underparts. Gray wings, tail. Short, weak flights on rapidly beating wings. Alternates several quick, shallow strokes with wings pulled to sides.
● Song:
"chick-a-dee-dee-dee", "chick-chee-day-day"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Boreal Chickadee: Eats variety of insects, insect eggs, and seeds. Mostly forages in conifers.
● Breeding & nesting:
Boreal Chickadee: Four to nine white eggs with red brown specks are laid in a cavity nest made of decaying wood, grass, moss, and animal hair, usually from 1 to 15 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 14 to 18 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Boreal Chickadee: Gray-headed Chickadee has more white on cheeks, gray-brown cap, longer tail, paler flanks, and gray-brown upperparts. Black-capped Chickadee has black cap, pale gray upperparts, large white cheek patch extending onto hind neck, and white-edged tertials and secondaries.