#1262 · 🐦 birds

Black-capped Chickadee

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Matkop ·Poecile atricapillus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Kent Ross · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Andrew Reding · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Nick Tepper · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Tom Preney · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Kent Ross · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Colin Moore · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Carol Howard Donati · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © Blake Ross · CC BY 4.0
10. © Chris Fisher · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black-capped chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. It is well known for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights as well as its good spatial memory to...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 170,382iNaturalist observations
weight 13 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
170,382 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 13 g.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).