chickadee• The voraciousshrews and chickadeesawait them.• Table 3.2 Sherry and Galef's experiment on the learning of black-backed chickadees to open milkcontainers.• A lovelychickadeeflew down and perched on her ankle.• Deep in the woods there are mixedflocks of chickadees and kinglets, and they chirp incessantly though unobtrusively.• As I leave the cabin clearing, I soon meet up with a troupe of over ten chickadees.• That chickadee is looking at you.• Golden-crowned kinglets often accompany the chickadees, so I follow this troupe to look for them.• After half an hour, however, I am convinced that these chickadees are unaccompanied by any other birds.