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Chestnut Backed Chickadee
Parus rufescens
 


                                                                   Photo ©Patricia McQuade

Chickadees are like acrobats. They hang upside down or sideways to eat insects and grubs among small branches of trees. Usually you can find them feeding in small flocks with other species of birds. Scientists think that they do this because it is safer to be in a group where there are many eyes and ears to detect predators, and it helps to have several birds together to find available food.

Habitat:
Coniferous or mixed woods 
Feeding:
Acrobatically clings to branches searching for insects and seeds. Comes to bird feeders for sunflower seeds and suet.
Nesting: 
Nest of moss, hair and feathers in tree cavity.
Eggs: 4-9 white with brown speckles
Incubation: 11-16 days
Fledge: 18 days
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Nature Trading Cards

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Trading cards?  Flash cards?  Game cards? Animal cards? Earth cards are all of these.

  • Collect them like baseball cards.
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  • Use them as flash cards and species cards for learning. 
  • Trade them with your friends.

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