Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

ALASKA CHICKADEE.

739. Penthestes cinctus alascensis. 5 inches.

Range.—Alaska and eastern Siberia. One would naturally think that these little animated bunches of feathers would freeze in the far north where they make their homes. But they are the same sprightly little “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” that we have farther south, and do not seem to mind the severe cold at all. In habits, nest and eggs, these birds are so near alike that it is impossible to identify them.