A presentation will be made Wednesday to ask the Legislature to distinquish if the boreal chickadee of black-capped chickadee is the state bird. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers.

The boreal chickadee, which has a brown “cap” and a rusty brown-colored body, inhabits the spruce forestland of western, northern and eastern Maine, and is less common in North America.

The proposed plate would succeed the chickadee design and would feature a buff background, a navy blue star and a dark green pine tree. ... the black-capped chickadee or the boreal chickadee.

State Rep. Betty Austin, with help from Skowhegan fourth-graders, will bring the question as to which breed of chickadee should be the state bird to a legislative committee on Wednesday.

CORNISH: More importantly, the boreal chickadee is not already claimed as someone else's state bird. KELLY: The black-capped chickadee is not only claimed, it is claimed by Massachusetts.

Bird names, both common and scientific, try to help clarify which bird is which. For black-capped chickadees, that means Poecile atricapillus for the Latin name, and any number of regional names.

For example, the boreal chickadee (the other New England chickadee) has a brown cap and cinnamon flanks and a more northerly range, preferring the boreal forests of Canada and the mountains of New ...

The chickadee was designated as the state bird in 1927, but there are two types of chickadees found in Maine. ... The black-capped chickadee has a signature song, while the boreal does not.

I have to admit that a good part of my attraction to tree-line in Northwest Montana - aside from pikas in the talus, whitebark pines, nutcrackers and rosy finches - is the 50-50 chance of a ...

Last month I published an article on the sighting of a rare bird in the Butte area, a boreal chickadee. As you might recall, Tom Bowler, a resident of Butte, sent me the picture of the chickadee ...

This species is the smallest chickadee in North America. One of the 3 “brown-backed” species (along with boreal and gray-headed), its nominate subspecies is the most richly colored parid ...