Chestnut-Backed Chickadees In the Northwest and along the Pacific Coast, you’ll find chestnut-backed chickadees at home in cities and towns as well as dense evergreen forests.

Chestnut-backed chickadees, yellow warblers and other feathered birds have landed this winter on otherwise-unassuming green utility boxes along South Van Ness Avenue and Bryant Street in the Mission.

They also are largely non-migratory, although the mountain and chestnut-backed chickadees of the Northwest move to find snow-free foraging.

The northern chestnut-backed chickadee (P. r. rufescens) was resident from Alaska south to the vicinity of Sebastopol in Sonoma County. The Marin chestnut-back (P. r. neglectus) was restricted to ...

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The black-capped chickadees are a little plainer than Marin’s chestnut-backed chickadees — my Californian eyes tend to spot these eastern chickadees and unconsciously start wondering why they ...

At bottom is the chestnut-backed chickadee, a western species. David Allen Sibley Also thanks to feathers, a bird can tuck in its most vulnerable body parts, particularly overnight.

Our local species is the chestnut-backed chickadee, a specialist in moist coastal forests from Alaska to Central California.

In wetter parts of the state such as west of the Cascades and in northeast, the well-named chestnut-backed chickadee is often common.

(Curiously, the condition has not been seen in either Boreal or Chestnut-backed chickadees.) Studied since 1999, researchers have yet to find an explanation for the deformity.