A black-capped chickadee on a cold Alaska day. (Photo by Jim DeWitt) During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to ...

Political uncertainty swirls around the future of 10-year state plans like that of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

The boreal forests of Canada, Alaska and edges of the northeastern states are home to chickadees of the same name, a brown-capped bird with a slow, scratchy chick-a-dee call.

The tiny black-capped chickadees are the most afflicted, with 7 percent of Alaska adults developing deformed beaks. The deformities are also showing up in other birds, including ravens and crows ...

This photo of a chickadee with a deformed beak was taken on Nov. 16 at the residence of Pamela Manley in Kasilof. ... Alaska has seen a dramatic uptick in the deformities in the last 10 years, ...

During the darkest days of Alaska’s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive 18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long nights ...

While both subspecies exist within North America and don’t migrate, the Black-Capped Chickadee is more northern, with a range that stretches from Pennsylvania to Fairbanks, Alaska. The Carolina ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998.The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska’s largest city with ...

Each day, the chickadee returned to Craig’s bird feeder. As he watched, its beak grew almost two inches long – about four times longer than normal. Over time, it began to look a little scruffy.

McQuillan's chickadees include the black-capped chickadee, whose range covers Alaska, Canada and the northern United States, and the Carolina chickadee, which lives in the southeastern U.S.

Chemical contaminants suspect in mystery of Alaska chickadee beak deformities Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 16:32 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 19 ...