CHICKADEE

chĭkˈədēˌ, small North American bird of the titmouse family. The black-capped chickadee (Parus atricapillus), lively and gregarious, is a permanent resident over most of its range in the East. Both sexes have black caps, gray backs and wings, and fluffy white to buff underparts. They often swing upside down from branch tips, searching for the insects that form more than half their diet. Their call note gives the bird its name. Other species are the Carolina, the boreal, or brown-capped (of the Northeast), and the western chestnut-backed chickadees. Chickadees are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Paridae.

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books on: Chickadee  - 251 results

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Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows, and Titmice, Order Passeriformes
Book by Arthur Cleveland Bent; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946
Subjects: Corvidae--North America, Paridae--North America
...atricapillus atricapillus: Black-capped chickadee 322...Parus atricapillus practicus: Appalachian chickadee 338...bartletti: Newfoundland black-capped chickadee 338...
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Parody as Film Genre: Never Give a Saga an Even Break
Book by Wes D. Gehring; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Comedy Films--History And Criticism, Drama, Parody In Motion Pictures
...moment in W. C. Fields My Little Chickadee 1940 , with George Moran. 42...of town quickly enough in My Little Chickadee 1940 . 47...W. C. Fields and Mae West My Little Chickadee 1940 , and the Marx Brothers Go West...
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Naturalist's Guide to the Americas
Book by Victor E. Shelford; Williams & Wilkins, 1926
Subjects: Natural History, Nature Conservation
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Masterpieces of American Indian Literature
Book by Willis G. Regier; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: American Literature--Indian Authors, Canadian Literature--Indian Authors, Indians Of North America, Indians Of North America--Literary Collections
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Cognitive Aspects of Stimulus Control
Book by W. K. Honig, J. Gregor Fetterman; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992
Subjects: Cognition In Animals--Congresses, Discrimination Learning--Congresses, Learning In Animals--Congresses
...Ratcliffe 1989 demonstrated that chickadees are responsive to both absolute and...roles of these different aspects of the chickadees song. Greater attention to ecological...relative pitch processing in black-capped chickadees, Parus atricapillus". Animal Behavior...
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Music Makes Math Meaningful
Journal article by R. Jill Edelson, Gretchen Johnson; Childhood Education, Vol. 80, 2003
...two, three, four), such as "Five Little Chickadees," can be adapted to include ordinal numbers...ordinal numbers, the order does matter. If the chickadees are lined up in a row, only one chickadee is the first in line, only one is the second...
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Searching for the Key: The Power of Story in the Healing Process
Journal article by Frederick F. Macdonald; Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, Vol. 8, 2005
Subjects: Children--Influence, Children--Psychological aspects, Fairy tales--Influence
...trapped many with no escape. A little Chickadee saw the great inferno and watched her...drop onto the raging flames. The little Chickadee repeated this over and over for hours...Mageezee Manitou. He spied the little Chickadee from his mountain abode and became curious...
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"Tell Me a Woman's Story": the Question of Gender in the Construction of Waheenee, Pretty-Shield, and Papago Woman
Journal article by Christine Colasurdo; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1997
Subjects: Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America
...Pretty-shield often appears "merry as a chickadee" to Linderman, at this point she breaks...stories and presenting herself "merry as a chickadee," choose not to provide intimate details...make Goes-together understand the word "chickadee" and philosophizes about modern society...
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Promiscuity
Journal article by Tim Birkhead; Daedalus, Vol. 136, 2007
Subjects: Chickens--Sexual behavior, Courtship of animals--Case studies, Darwin, Charles--Observations, Diptera--Sexual behavior, Mating behavior--Case studies, Promiscuity--Physiological aspects, Sexual selection (Natural selection)--Analysis, Sexual selection in animals--Analysis
...North American bird, the black-capped chickadee, Susan Smith noticed that females went...in which females, like Susan Smiths chickadees, seek extrapair copulations--also occurs...Extra-Pair Copulations in Black-Capped Chickadees: The Role of the Female," Behaviour...
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Norbert Blei: Portrait of the Artist as Outsider
Journal article by David Pichaske; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Blei, Norbert--Criticism and interpretation, Blei, Norbert--Works, Writing--Analysis, Writing--Methods
...Moon Mission, Spiro Agnews attacks on the media, the ongoing war in Vietnam) against the placid Door landscape (squirrel and chickadee at the feeder, cold and quiet evenings) and his domestic woes and responsibilities (wife, house, children ... "the full catastrophe...
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magazine articles on: Chickadee  - 27 results

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Total Recall
Magazine article by Les Line; National Wildlife, Vol. 36, February 1998
Subjects: Chickadees--Behavior
...and where to store food. Imagine a chickadee! "Oh my gosh!" exclaims Susan Smith, the doyenne of chickadee researchers, as a pair of the bantam...second glance to a couple of humdrum chickadees. But Smith, professor of biological...
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Magazine article by Stanley Hauerwas, David Toolr; The Christian Century, Vol. 124, November 13, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (Book)--Book reviews
...called attention to the lodge of the Chickadee that rested in the tree. Only the lodge of the Chickadee-person, who is least in strength but...mind, was left unharmed by the wind. The Chickadee survived because the Chickadee is willing...
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Congregation of Coots
Magazine article by Eugene Peterson; The Christian Century, Vol. 115, October 28, 1998
Subjects: Bible. O.T. Psalms (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Canada goose--Behavior, Coots--Behavior
...lake. Each morning I sit at my window and watch the lake fill up with light. It is a quiet place and spacious. A mountain chickadee and red-breasted nuthatch show up most mornings, embroidering the silence with their chatter. On a recent morning I had Psalm...
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Burial out of the Box
Magazine article by Janet Mccausland; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 34, January 2008
Subjects: Burial--Environmental aspects, Cemeteries--Environmental aspects, Land management--Evaluation, Sustainable development
...in an elegant urn that are either scattered or interred. But thinkers like Mary Anne Brinckman, founding editor of OWL and Chickadee magazines, are looking for something else. "The idea of burning my body up using a lot of fossil fuel, or the idea of having...
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Staying the Winter
Magazine article by Les Line; National Wildlife, Vol. 33, February 1995
Subjects: Birds--Migration, Passeriformes--Behavior
...nuthatch. To that list add the black-capped chickadee, whose large flights out of the North...often overlooked because everybody sees chickadees every day. Though dramatic irruptions...Alaska river delta. The black-capped chickadee is another story. Chickadees are year-round...
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The Ever-Present Chickadee
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 24, 2008
Subjects: Birds
The Ever-Present Chickadee. For those of us who live in the...of North America, the black-capped chickadee is likely a well-known backyard visitor...on each side of the face. The name "chickadee" also describes calls given by these...
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Bird-Watchers Flock to Arboretum's Ornithology Programs
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 4, 2000
...bird-watching guide tucked in a back pocket. Indeed, knowing the difference between a bluebird and a blue jay, or a junco and a chickadee is most decidedly "in." "An interest in birding is definitely growing and reaching a broader audience," said Brian Neiman...
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Lake County in 60 Seconds
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 8, 2004
...review by the land preservation and acquisition committee are: the Sandhill Forest Preserve, Savanna Hills Forest Preserve, Chickadee Pines Forest Preserve, Pine Farm Forest Preserve and Pine Glen Forest Preserve. The committee tentatively approved the deal...
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Goddesses You Should Worship
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 9, 2005
...includes films such as Some Like It Hot, El Cid, Gilda, Pillow Talk, Guess Whos Coming To Dinner, Double Indemnity and My Little Chickadee, and also boasts an impressive array of male co-stars: Brando, Gable, Grant, Sinatra, John Wayne and Spencer Tracy. I found...
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Calendar: Top Picks
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 14, 2005
Subjects: Fields, W.C.
...Never Give a Sucker an Even Break on Saturday; My Little Chickadee on Monday; and Its a Gift, twinned with the two-reel classic...through July 30. 202/483-4383. - Joanna Shaw-Eagle "My Little Chickadee," starring W.C. Fields and Mae West, will be shown Monday...
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encyclopedia articles on: Chickadee  - 6 results

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Chickadee
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
CHICKADEE chik de , small North American bird of the titmouse family. The black-capped chickadee ( Parus atricapillus ), lively and gregarious, is a...of the Northeast), and the western chestnut-backed chickadees. Chickadees are classified in the phylum Chordata...
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Titmouse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...which includes the tits, titmice, and chickadees. They are small, active birds with short...Typical of the family are the blackcapped chickadee, Parus atricapillus, of the NE United States, the nearly identical Carolina chickadee of the South, and the similar willow...
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West, Mae
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...classics. Her plays include Sex (1926) and Diamond Lil (1928). Among her films are She Done Him Wrong (1933) and My Little Chickadee (1940). See her autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It (1959) and The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West (1967...
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Maine , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Katahdin, 5,268 ft (1,607 m); lowest pt., sea level. Nickname, Pine Tree State. Motto, Dirigo I Direct. State bird, chickadee. State flower, white pine cone and tassel. State tree, Eastern white pine. Abbr., Me.; ME Geography Located in...
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Massachusetts
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Motto, Ense Petit Placidam Sub Libertate Quietem By the Sword We Seek Peace, But Peace Only under Liberty. State bird, chickadee. State flower, mayflower. State tree, American elm. Abbr., Mass.; MA Geography The eastern part of the commonwealth...
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