black-capped

Nuthatches and black-capped chickadees remember precisely where they stored food in the wild.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

Below each drawing I compose a cryptogram, a hybrid of pig Latin, English, and French, neatly labeling each picture in tiny calligraphic script: Binrobatus rouge for red-breasted robin, Chicadeenus chapeaunoir for the little black-capped chickadee.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

However, black-capped kingfishers are different from their congeners because they occur in mangroves, where they mainly pounce on fish.

Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata 2011

Below each drawing I compose a cryptogram, a hybrid of pig Latin, English, and French, neatly labeling each picture in tiny calligraphic script: Binrobatus rouge for red-breasted robin, Chicadeenus chapeaunoir for the little black-capped chickadee.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

Response: This is a black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata, a species whose genus name was derived from a Greek myth about a woman named Alcyone.

Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata 2011

Response: This is a black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata, a species whose genus name was derived from a Greek myth about a woman named Alcyone.

Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata 2011

Not so much to the app's black-capped chickadee call, but to the Carolina chickadee's clean four- to six-note song.

This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

The reaction of our resident black-capped chickadees was more dramatic.

This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

They look similar to the local chickadees, though brown- rather than black-capped.

This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

However, black-capped kingfishers are different from their congeners because they occur in mangroves, where they mainly pounce on fish.

Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata 2011