The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers. . . — Henry David Thoreau Many of our feathered friends are also fair-weather friends, which makes the chickadee ...

Chickadees replace 30 percent of their old neurons to make room for new memories in their hippocampus. The expansion of the hippocampus is one of the most impressive aspects of any bird. Seasonal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountain chickadees struggle with snow extremes. Benjamin Sonnenberg Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb ...

On nearly every one of my daily walks in the neighborhood in January, a black-capped chickadee calls its name. It doesn’t matter if it’s snowing, cold, raining, gloomy or sunny, and if no other birds ...

Ben Sonnenberg, a doctoral student in the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology program, studies chickadees with Vladimir Pravosudov. Sonnenberg has coauthored many publications about the ...

You put the car keys down somewhere in the house, and have spent 15 minutes trying to find them. You’ve also been known to dash around looking for your hat, forgetting that it’s already on your head.

Spring doesn’t officially start until March 20, but signs of spring are everywhere in the Northwest. Flowers are popping and birds are singing their hearts out. Some songbirds are just returning from ...

I am pelted by wet snow as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, tugging a sled loaded with batteries, bolts, wire and 40 pounds of sunflower seeds critical to our ...

Like all warm-blooded animals, birds have a higher body temperature than their surroundings, especially in winter. They are thus losing heat all the time. The lower the temperature of their ...

How do birds, barefoot and covered only in fluff, survive cold? In the same conditions, we humans shiver in multi-layered high-tech insulation, fearing hypothermia. Consider our Carolina chickadees.