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black capped chickadee

Submitted by mcaroline on April 23, 2008 - 6:37am.

The Chickadee belongs to the group of birds known as titmice.
The word titmouse comes from the Old Icelandic word titr, meaning something small and a corruption of an old english word mase meaning small bird.
articapillus, Latin, ater meaning black capillus meaning hair of the men, or hair of the head

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