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Black-capped Chickadee

Poecile atricapilla 2007-10-15

 

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-capped_Chickadee :

 

"The Black-capped Chickadee, (Poecile atricapillus), is a small, common songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Often, it is still placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships (Gill et al., 2005). The American Ornithologists' Union has been treating Poecile as distinct genus for some time already."

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Uploaded on January 3, 2008
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