Carolina Chickadee

The Carolina Chickadee, Poecile carolinensis, is one of the four birds discovered and named by John James Audubon while he was in South Carolina.

These birds are often found foraging in mixed-species flocks, especially with their relatives the Tufted Titmouse. The chickadees get one seed at a time from the bird feeder and fly off to a branch to crack the seed open. Holding the seed down with their feet they hammer the shell open with their beak.


A group of chickadees is known collectively as a "banditry" or a "dissimulation" of chickadees.