Jeanne Warren
These little birds never cease to make me smile. They have cute chick-a-dee-dee-dee alarm calls and often fluff their tiny bodies of feathers in the cold snow.
The number of dees at the end of a chickadee’s (poecile atricapillus) call is code for different levels of alarm. One dee stands for no threat while five dees can communicate that a northern pygmy owl is nearby.
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