This is Bird Note.

The image of this dapper blackcapped chickadee frequently adorns holiday cards and bags of birdseed.

But the blackcapped is only one of seven species of chickadees found in North America.

All have bold, black and white patterns on their faces and each calls chickadee with its

own regional accent.

While you'll find the blackcapped chickadee across the northern U.S. into Canada, it's

close cousin, the Carolina chickadee, holds sway in the southeast, hike among conifers in

the Rockies and you'll be greeted by the husky voice of a mountain chickadee.

Or listen in the dense spruce forests of Canada for the call of the boreal chickadee.

A chickadee of resplendent brown, the chestnut-backed chickadee, calls the Pacific Northwest home.

The Mexican chickadee just nudges into the mountains of southeast Arizona.

And the grey-headed chickadee, turns up in the extreme northwest corner of the cotton

and north of the Arctic Circle.

No matter which chickadee you find, take a moment to enjoy what of nature's most delightful

creatures.

Here are the calls of all seven again on our website, birdnote.org.

I'm Mary McCann.