How to Use chickadee in a Sentence

chickadee

noun

• Pine grosbeaks, mountain chickadees, golden-mantled ground squirrels and pine squirrels may also make an appearance along this portion of the trail.
  — Estes Park Trail-Gazette, The Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2024
• All American species, such as chickadees, and their close relatives in the Old World, such as willow and marsh tits, are large-scale food-hoarders.
  — Anders Brodin, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• As the seeds mature, the flower heads remain attractive, taking on darker hues and drawing hungry songbirds to the garden, including finches, grosbeaks, and chickadees.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 July 2024
• The heat was not the first thing to threaten the chickadees.
  — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 24 June 2018
• The chickadee perched on the slippery edge and slid in.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• There was a titmouse in an oak tree and a chickadee on a fence post.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
• The average lifespan of a chickadee in the wild is 2.5 years.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 7 May 2017
• Your little chickadee will be the head of the flock in this no-sew costume made of super-soft felt.
  — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2022
• Finches, pine siskins, chickadees and woodpeckers eat the seeds from the pine cones and glean insects from the bark.
  — Jennifer J. Meyer, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2017
• The sound of the flowing river was broken by the chirping of a black-capped chickadee and a white-breasted nuthatch.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 18 Dec. 2017
• This is a perfect birdhouse for wrens and chickadees, since the hole size is 1.25 inches.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
• Perched on the tree was a small black and white chickadee, prancing on the thick bark, its feathers shining in the bright morning light.
  — oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2021
• But a downy woodpecker has set up shop in the old tree, and the chickadees and nuthatches are working over the bark something fierce.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
• These seed heads are a great source of food for cardinals, finches and chickadees.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2023
• Nuthatches sound like a squeak toy, for instance, and chickadees have a plaintive call.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2017
• Catch the soft sounds of winter: a frozen tree creaking, a stream gurgling under the ice, a restless chickadee.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• The chickadee – Maine’s state bird – is both acrobatic and tame: With patience it can be trained to eat from one’s hand.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• But no bluebird cares if a chickadee is nesting next door — and vice-versa.
  — Sharon Sorenson, Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2020
• As the researchers work under the sunshine in the 6-degree air, a red squirrel rattles and chickadees sing.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Most days, a family of cardinals shows up, then the chickadees and finches and a large, loud blue jay.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 21 Apr. 2020
• Migrants passing through our area like to flock with chickadees and titmice.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• So the birds sort out their distances and differences and the boxes house titmice, tree swallows, and, yes, chickadees.
  — Sharon Sorenson, Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2020
• Smaller than chickadees, little brown bats exist on the very northern edge of their range in Alaska.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2019
• The elongated white seed is called safflower and chickadees in the coastal areas and Santa Cruz Mountains seem to love it.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• Massachusetts’ state bird, the black-capped chickadee, is among scores of birds expected to disappear from parts or all of the state by 2050.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• The smallest entry hole available is 1.125 inches, which is suitable for smaller birds such as house wrens and chickadees.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
• When seeds are readily available, the chickadee will often stash them for later use.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The post actually shows a handmade sculpture of a chickadee.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 29 June 2021
• These birds are on a manhunt amongst the chickadees flapping about the hotel lobby, pecking along the floor, and dashing between the trees planted by the water fountains.
  — Danielle C. Belton, The Root, 23 June 2018
• To find an explanation for this conundrum, the research team turned to chickadees.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024