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black-capped chickadee

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  1. chickadee


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of black-capped chickadee1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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So far, we’d come across a black-capped chickadee in Pigeon Cove and a spotted salamander in a rainwater pond in the woods.

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Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.

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Surely that black-capped chickadee has as much right to my attention as this documentary.

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A camouflaged black-capped chickadee, its feathers tufting in the wind on a snowy branch.

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The boreal chickadee is native to northern Maine, and the black-capped chickadee is native to southern Maine.

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