black-capped chickadee
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of black-capped chickadee
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.
From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2021
A camouflaged black-capped chickadee, its feathers tufting in the wind on a snowy branch.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2020
At 315 Bowery, once CBGB, there were flying squirrels and meadow voles; around 881 Seventh Avenue, Carnegie Hall, the sharp-shinned hawk and black-capped chickadee found homes.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2017
Researchers are careful to say the virus — named Poecivirus after the black-capped chickadee genus — has not yet been nailed down as the cause of distorted beaks.
From US News • Oct. 25, 2016
So far, we’d come across a black-capped chickadee in Pigeon Cove and a spotted salamander in a rainwater pond in the woods.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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