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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:05 AM
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An untrained ear may hear only "chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee." To a tiny black-capped chickadee, though, the call could be loosely translated as, "Yikes! Get a load of that pygmy-owl! I'll need the whole flock to help drive it away!"

Citing an "unsuspected level of complexity and sophistication in avian alarm calls," researchers have concluded that the chickadee's familiar call varies with the size of a potential predator, influencing the number of recruits joining forces to mob it and send it packing.
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:08 AM
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1. Boom chicka boom!
I said a boom chicka rocka chicka rocka chicka boom!

(in honor of summer camp season) :)

I wish I could make that same avian distress call when this neighborhood mockingbird comes to roost outside my window at 3am.
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:17 AM
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2. I love Chickadees
They were described by a Wisconsin naturalist as "Nature's smallest bundle of large enthusiasm."
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