….chickadees?!?


Say wha?!?

That’s right, friends. It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and in the best traditions of this renowned bacchanal, we exhort you, nay beg you to show us your chickadees, titmice, and tits.

Everyone loves a chickadee. There’s no denying it. In fact, 10,000 Birds readers voted the chickadee Most Beloved Backyard Bird 2008 and we didn’t even bother running the poll again this year because we knew who would win! Whether you live in the New World and refer to the various passerines in Paridae as chickadees and titmice or dwell in the Old World and know them as tits, if you like birds, you LOVE these cheeky birds.

I asked readers to submit links to their posts about any species of chickadee, titmouse, or tit and included them below. This way, those of us who can’t spend Fat Tuesday in the French Quarter can still get our share of, you know, chickadees.

1. Connie Kogler
2. Van
3. James
4. mellting
5. Kallen
6. John
7. Charlie
8. Nature Observer
9. Con Daily
10. Seth Hopkins

Written by Mike
Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but he's also a traveler who fully expects to see every bird in the world. Besides founding 10,000 Birds in 2003, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining but now extirpated nature blog resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network and I and the Bird.