Cute Black Capped Chickadee Key Ring

This little black-capped chickadee sits on the edge of the wooden feeder, looking forward to a favourite food - sunflower seeds. Warm colours yellow, gold, pink and red set off this design and charming little songbird. You can personalise this with a name or simply remove the text, as you like. Chickadees are social and smart, among the most intelligent of the small songbirds. They're known for their warning call "chickadee-dee-dee" with the number of "dee's" corresponding to the amount of danger the bird senses. Besides that familiar song the chickadee has over thirty vocalisations: melodious whistles, trills and chirps. These tiny birds are only 4-5 inches on average and have almost no body fat, but they are tough and tenacious. A chickadee survives bitter cold Canadian winter nights by lowering the body temperature dramatically - almost dying every night, so she can live another day. They're very active birds and if you are patient they'll soon become tame enough to take food from your hand. While they are particularly fond of sunflower seeds, their diet is omniverous and they eat other seeds, grubs and insects as well. Like squirrels, chickadees and their cousins the nutchatches are known to stash food. Their spatial memory is excellent and they remember most of their hiding places. The chickadee is also a strong totem animal and brings many happy blessings. Chickadee represents honesty as she always speaks the truth; this bird can warn you of danger in your path. Chickadees are also associated with strength in smallness, sociability, friends or work acquaintances, adaptability, memory and innate intelligence. Chickadees often hang out with birds of other species, such as nuthatches, sparrows, cardinals and blue jays. This is one of the chickadees who visits our feeder regularly. Original nature photography M Sylvia Chaume, Canada.