This is Bird Note.

The image of this dapper black-capped chickadee frequently adorns holiday cards and bags of bird seed.

But the black-capped is only one of seven species of chickadees found in North America.

All have bold, black-and-white patterns on their faces, 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 black-capped chickadee across the northern U.S. into Canada,

its 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, caused the Pacific Northwest home.

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

And the gray-headed chickadee?

Turns up in the extreme northwest corner of the continent north of the Arctic Circle.

No matter which chickadee you find,

take a moment to enjoy what of nature's most delightful creatures.

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

I'm Mary McCann.