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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
A blithe spirit of the woodlands variously described as friendly, bold, even fearless, the Black-capped Chickadee occurs year round in wooded areas throughout Saskatchewan. The song chick-a-dee-dee-dee uttered year-round is distinctive. The Black-capped Chickadee is the most wide-ranging of the North American Chickadees, found as a permanent resident in a wide swath across central North America from Alaska and northern California to Newfoundland and North Carolina (AOU 1998).
Black-capped Chickadees inhabit all types of wooded country: deciduous and mixed woods in the north, and aspen groves and riparian woodlands in the south (Smith 1996). In both town and country, they frequent feeding stations that offer suet and sunflower seeds. They are inconspicuous in the breeding season (Miller in Leighton et al. 2002). Numbers at feeders rebound in fall.
The abundance of this species varies considerably over its range, from common in the southern boreal region, parklands, and Cypress Hills to uncommon in the northern boreal and subarctic regions, and uncommon and local in the mixedgrass prairie (Smith 1996).
Original text by William Anaka. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Black-capped Chickadee in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Black-capped Chickadee in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=BCCH&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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