Carolina chickadee

American  

noun

1. a chickadee, Parus carolinensis, of the southeastern U.S., resembling but smaller than the black-capped chickadee.

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Example Sentences

To play a bird, you need food; the Carolina chickadee, for example, requires one invertebrate token or one seed token.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2021

The roster from 2016: “tufted titmouse, Carolina chickadee, Carolina wren, eastern bluebird, northern mockingbird, northern cardinal, eastern towhee.”

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2019

Winner of a Statewide newspaper poll had been the Carolina chickadee, small cousin of the little grey-white-&-black bird which cheers many a northern farmer's wife with its pert midwinter chirpings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then it transpired that my mysterious warbler was not a warbler at all, but the Carolina chickadee.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford