Chickadee Surprise
by Sandra Huston
Title
Chickadee Surprise
Artist
Sandra Huston
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Chickadee Surprise" is an original fine art wildlife photograph by Sandra Huston.
I captured this photograph while walking along an old gravel pit road in Lisbon Falls, Maine in April on Easter weekend.
Honored to be featured in the following Fine Art America groups:
* All Natural Beauty of this World - 4/25/17
* USA Photographers - 4/25/17
* New England Photographs - 4/28/17
Fun Facts: The black-capped chickadee is a small North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is also the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. The males sing the song only in relative isolation from other chickadees (including their mates). In late summer, some young birds will sing only a single note. Both sexes sometimes make a faint version of the song, and this appears to be used when feeding young. The most familiar call is the chick-a-dee-dee-dee which gave this bird its name. This simple-sounding call is astonishingly complex. It has been observed to consist of up to four distinct units which can be arranged in different patterns to communicate information about threats from predators and coordination of group movement. Recent study of the call shows that the number of dees indicates the level of threat from nearby predators. In an analysis of over 5,000 alarm calls from chickadees, it was found that alarm calls triggered by small, dangerous raptors had a shorter interval between chick and dee and tended to have extra dees, usually averaging four instead of two. In one case, a warning call about a pygmy owl a prime threat to chickadees – contained 23 dees. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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April 24th, 2017
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