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Black-capped chickadee (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world to c/birding@lemmy.world

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Midwest USA. December 2025.

Olympus E-M1+ Oly 75mm-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II @ 252, f/8, 1/80s, ISO-640.

Did I find an IRL shiny? Is this leucism? It's rare that I see a chickadee with white feathers in its cap.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That’s a hybrid with a mountain chickadee I’m pretty sure!

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world [S] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Interesting. I didn't think we had mountain chickadees here I'm way over East vs their typical range.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

You probably don’t but bird ranges are expanding rapidly. Also from what I’ve been told by some experts, mountain chickadees will sometimes join a BCC gang and hang out with it even without being near their range. So maybe you got a hybrid that just traveled very far east. In any case it looks just like a hybrid to me!

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