{"id":185,"date":"2015-01-07T23:03:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2015-01-10T02:24:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T02:24:11","slug":"black-capped-chickadee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/black-capped-chickadee\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-capped Chickadee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Black-capped Chickadee by Rob Fergus, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/90105208@N07\/16179129902\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7490\/16179129902_ed1e8c9685.jpg?resize=500%2C278&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black-capped Chickadee\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note white secondaries and wing coverts forming a white &#8220;hockey stick&#8221;&#8211;one of the key marks for distinguishing Black-capped from Carolina and hybrid chickadees.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black-capped Chickadee<\/strong> (Code 1) 1 Jan 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area<\/strong>: Historically, all chickadees in northern Hunterdon County have been considered Black-capped Chickadees, but recently it seems that most of them may actually be Black-capped x Carolina Chickadee hybrids. In the winter time, a few northern birds that are more obviously Black-capped Chickadees are seen with the local chickadees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yard<\/strong>: Fairly common&#8211;though most chickadees are thought to be hybrids and birds that are more obviously Black-capped Chickadees are usually only seen in the winter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Typical Black-capped Chickadee song type (1 Jan 2015). \u00a0Birds learn the song, and hybrids seem to prefer this song, so not reliable for separating pure Black-capped Chickadees from hybrid Black-Capped x Carolina Chickadee.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-185-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BCCH-1-Jan-2012-song.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BCCH-1-Jan-2012-song.mp3\">http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BCCH-1-Jan-2012-song.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BCCH-1-Jan-2012-sosng.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-311\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BCCH-1-Jan-2012-sosng.png?resize=473%2C222\" alt=\"BCCH 1 Jan 2012 sosng\" width=\"473\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BCCH-1-Jan-2012-sosng.png?w=473&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BCCH-1-Jan-2012-sosng.png?resize=300%2C141&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Black-capped Chickadee (Code 1) 1 Jan 2015 Area: Historically, all chickadees in northern Hunterdon County have been considered Black-capped Chickadees, but recently it seems that most of them may actually be Black-capped x Carolina Chickadee hybrids. In the winter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/black-capped-chickadee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-species-accounts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Blr3-2Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}