Chickadee
(Adopted 1941)

Perhaps the most-loved bird, the Chickadee patronizes the feeder, favoring suet and sunflower seeds. Its black cap and bib are distinctive, as is its call, a clearly enunciated chick-adeedeedee. The song, a whistled fee-bee, is easily imitated. It lives across the southern half of Canada and the northern half of the lower 48 states.