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a four-gram fluffball that remembers thousands of hidden seeds and dies in your honor.
means A small, round North American songbird of the tit family, known for its black cap and bib and its namesake call.
from Onomatopoeia, plain and pure: the bird names itself with its scolding 'chick-a-dee-dee-dee' call. The word is an American coinage from the early 19th century, echoing the sound the bird actually makes — one of those rare names where you can hear the creature in the syllables. Its British relatives, the tits, got duller names; the American settlers simply listened and wrote down what they heard.
- alarm code
- more dee notes mean a bigger predator threat
- brain reboot
- grows new neurons each fall to recall caches
- cold survival
- drops body temp nightly to save energy
- named by call
- its chick-a-dee song is the namesake
- fearless
- will land on a still human hand
black-capped chickadee — most common chickadee species across north america, found from alaska to north carolina
carolina chickadee — resident species in southeastern united states, darker cap than black-capped cousin
chestnut-backed chickadee — pacific coast species from british columbia to baja california with distinctive chestnut coloring