Also, its white cheek darkens to pale gray toward the nape, while the black-capped’s is completely white, with more white on its wing feathers. Nuthatch vs chickadee: Here’s how to tell the ...

Nestlings grow quickly, developing feathers and eyes that open after about a week. Mid to late June: After 16-18 days in the nest, young chickadees fledge but stay near their parents, continuing to ...

In less than a month, Maine will start phasing out the chickadee license plates and replace them with the pine tree plates. The chickadee design has been around for more than 25 years. The ...

But 70,000 migrating geese cause migrating headaches. They nest on rooftops, restaurant patios, airport runways. Officials ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers have been stumped by how these complex structures form, but now a ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the genetics of feather formation by experimenting on chicken embryos. By ...

Starting May 1, the iconic chickadee license plate will be retired by the Maine Bureau of Mother Vehicles and replaced with two new designs. One features a pine tree and the North Star ...

Spring is in the air — which means nest-making season is upon us! For this month’s Chirp Chat, Lake Effect’s Xcaret Nuñez ...

The tufted titmouse is a jaunty little cousin of the chickadee. Unlike some other mating ... they generally have gray ...