CAROLINA CHICKADEE

Carolina Chickadee (Parus carolinensis)

Permanent resident.

A common species in the southern two-thirds of Ohio replaced by the black-capped chickadee in the remainder of the state.

Chickadees inhabit a wide variety of wooded habitats including parks, cemeteries, suburban yards, fencelines and riparian corridors.

In riparian breeding bird counts conducted along Big Darby Creek, Carolina chickadees showed a strong preference for those wooded corridors which varied from 25 to 100 feet in width. Their numbers dropped significantly along Big Darby when corridor widths exceeded 100 feet on each bank or when the corridor width was less than 25 feet on each bank.