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Poecile atricapillus (Black-capped Chickadee)

Synonyms: Parus atricapillus
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

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 relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (sometimes feeding from the hand).
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Infraspecies

Poecile atricapillus atricapillus
Poecile atricapillus bartletti
Poecile atricapillus fortuitus
Poecile atricapillus garrinus
Poecile atricapillus nevadensis
Poecile atricapillus occidentalis
Poecile atricapillus practicus
Poecile atricapillus septentrionalis
Poecile atricapillus turneri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.91749
EDGE Score: 2.06908
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12 grams
Birth Weight [3]  1 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests, Boreal forests, Temperate western forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests, Boreal forests, Temperate western forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  80 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  7
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [1]  17 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  39,000,000
Incubation [3]  12 days
Mating System [6]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  12 years
Female Maturity [3]  6 months
Male Maturity [3]  6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Emblem of

Maine
Massachusetts
New Brunswick

Prey / Diet

Acer saccharum (sugar maple)[7]
Chrysoperla carnea (Green Lacewing)[8]
Culiseta alaskaensis (Mosquito)[8]
Toxicodendron radicans radicans (Eastern poison ivy)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[9]
Accipiter striatus (Sharp-shinned Hawk)[9]
Falco columbarius (Merlin)[8]
Lanius excubitor (Northern Shrike)[8]
Megascops asio (Eastern Screech-Owl)[9]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Audio

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 8Exploring the Denali Food Web, ParkWise, National Park Service
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 11International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0