Carolina Chickadee Photos
A species very similar to the Black-capped Chickadee. I'd have a very hard time telling them apart, other than range. The Carolina Chickadee is found in the Southeastern U.S.
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
One of our most distinctive and charismatic birds, common throughout the state.
Carolina Chickadee
Poecile carolinensis
The Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) is widespread across the southeastern United States, ranging north to Ohio and Maryland and west to most of Oklahoma and central Texas.
Carolina Chickadee
Norfolk Botanical Gardens
11/20/09
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile C.Nsis)
Note: This encounter date & time is approximate, the original date information is '11/09/09'. Spe...
Carolina Chickadee
Adult
Usually can be separated by range (Black-capped in north U.S., Carolina in south), but overlap in a narrow belt from Nebraska E to New Jersey
Usually grayer overall, with less orangish on sides
Often grayer nape ...
Carolina Chickadees and Tufted Titmice frequently visit feeders, especially for sunflower seeds, and will use nest boxes.
name area season diet/native food plants
Carolina Chickadee
NC ...
Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis. Breeder. Common in all seasons and regions. Found in woodlands and wooded suburbs. Low Conservation Concern.
Carolina Chickadee
Summer Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Chuck-will's-widow
Summer Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Carolina Chickadee, Poecile carolinensis
Black-capped Chickadee, Poecile atricapilla
Mountain Chickadee, Poecile gambeli
Mexican Chickadee, Poecile sclateri
Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Poecile rufescens
Boreal Chickadee, Poecile hudsonica ...
The Carolina Chickadee prefers forested or wooded habitats. It eats primarily insects and also spiders, fruits, and seeds. It forages by searching among tree branches, trunks, pine cones, and dead leaf clusters. It also frequents bird feeders.
There are some areas of breeding territory which the black-capped chickadee and the Carolina chickadee (P. carolinensis) both use; in this area hybrids of the two species commonly occur.
The Black-capped Chickadee is very similar to the Carolina Chickadee and where their ranges overlap they can be difficult to separate. In fact, they have trouble telling themselves apart and hybrids occur.
In noisy flocks, sometimes with other species like the Carolina Chickadee or the Brown Nuthatch, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker tends to segregate by sex, with males concentrating on the trunk and upper branches and the females on the main trunk.
Carolina Chickadee, Parus carolinensis (Poecile carolinensis)
Black-capped Chickadee, Parus atricapilla (Poecile atricapillus)
Mountain Chickadee, Parus gambeli (Poecile gambeli) ...
The smaller (4-1/2 inch) Carolina Chickadee--south of the Mason-Dixon Line -- has four or five notes in its whistled song instead of two or three. The brown-capped Boreal Chickadee (5 inch) is a winter visitor along the Canadian border.
CAROLINA TITMOUSE.
[Carolina Chickadee.]
PARUS CAROLINENSIS, Aud.
[Parus carolinensis.] ...
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 tit of Europe and the British Isles. Some titmice have crests, e.g.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Tufted Titmouse.
Watt DJ. 1972. Comparison of the foraging behaviors of the Carolina Chickadee and Tufted Titmouse in northwestern Arkansas. M.Sc. thesis, Univ. Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Black capped chickadees often frequent the woods of Canada, Northern United States and Alaska. These Chickadee birds are often confused with the Carolina Chickadee; the one thing that can tell them apart is their way of calling or their sounds.
Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis: Gloucester County, NJ, 08 Mar
Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus: Central Park, Manhattan, NY, 06 Jan
Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli: Mount Rainier National Park, WA, 05 Aug ...
 See also: Chickadee, Nuthatch, Warbler, Woodpecker, Sparrow
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