A study finds that chickadee alarm calls are being understood by an entirely different breed of bird — the red-breasted nuthatch. Chris Templeton of the University of Washington says it makes sense ...

When they spot a predator, black-capped chickadees vary their alarm cries. The warnings help flock mates grasp the relative threat posed by the predator, researchers report in this week's issue of the ...

The first example of an animal making sophisticated decisions about the danger posed by a predator from the information contained in the alarm calls of another species has been discovered. If Dr. John ...

The black-capped chickadee has a surprising level of complexity in the noises it makes for alarm calls. Researchers found that chickadees use a high-frequency call to warn of danger in the air.

I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada’s diverse pine cone crop, fill the ...

Members of the Pravosudov lab catch and release resident chickadees to attach identifying bands that allow the researchers to track individual birds.(Sofia Haley) I spend my days out at our field site ...