WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Parus atricapillus | Black-Capped Chickadee 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The black-capped chickadee is resident from western and central Alaska,
most of Canada south of the arctic circle, south to extreme northwestern
California, extreme northeastern Nevada, northern New Mexico, central
Indiana, and northern New Jersey.  At upper elevations in the
Appalachians its range extends farther south [6,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine


STATES : 


    
AK
    
AZ
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS


    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MO
    
MT
    
NV


    
NH
    
NJ
    
NM
    
NY
    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA


    
RI
    
SC
    
SD
    
TN
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI


    
WY
    
DC
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    





BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce-cedar-hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar-hemlock-Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir-hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar-hemlock-pine forest
   K014  Grand fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce-fir forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine-Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest 
   K020  Spruce-fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce-fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K093  Great Lakes spruce-fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce-fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce-fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple-basswood forest
   K100  Oak-hickory forest
   K101  Elm-ash forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar-hemlock-pine forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine-Douglas-fir forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce-tamarack
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch-red maple
    20  White pine-northern red oak-red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine-hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock-yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple-beech-yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple-basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry-maple
    30  Red spruce-yellow birch
    31  Red spruce-sugar maple-beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce-balsam fir
    34  Red spruce-Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch-red spruce-balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    38  Tamarack
    39  Black ash-American elm-red maple
    40  Post oak-blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    46  Eastern redcedar
    50  Black locust
    51  White pine-chestnut oak
    52  White oak-black oak-northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    58  Yellow-poplar-eastern hemlock
    59  Yellow-poplar-white oak-northern red oak
    60  Beech-sugar maple
    62  Silver maple-American elm
    63  Cottonwood
    87  Sweetgum-yellow-poplar
    93  Sugarberry-American elm-green ash
    94  Sycamore-sweetgum-American elm
    95  Black willow
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   109  Hawthorn
   110  Black oak
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce-paper birch
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   216  Blue spruce
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock-Sitka spruce
   227  Western redcedar-western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir-western hemlock
   234  Douglas-fir-tanoak-Pacific madrone
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce-aspen
   253  Black spruce-white spruce
   254  Black spruce-paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   110  Ponderosa pine-grassland
   412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   422  Riparian


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Black-capped chickadee habitat includes evergreen forested wetlands,
deciduous forested wetlands [35], deciduous woodlands, mixed woodlands,
deciduous and coniferous forests, orchards, deciduous shrubs, urban and
suburban areas [6], and disturbed areas such as old fields.  Favored
riparian communities include cottonwood (Populus spp.) and sometimes
willow (Salix spp.) thickets.  Birches (Betula spp.) and alders (Alnus
spp.) are often used for both food and nesting, but black-capped
chickadees use a wide variety of other plant species as well.
Black-capped chickadees occur in many habitat types [31].

In western North Dakota black-capped chickadees forage in the canopy and
nest in cavities in cottonwood stands; they occupy ash (mostly green ash
[Fraxinus pennsylvanica]) woodland interiors, and are found in pine
(Pinus spp.) communities.  Black-capped chickadees are common in dense
ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa) stands with well-developed shrub layers [14].

In the Konza Prairie, Kansas, black-capped chickadees were the second
most abundant species in gallery forests.  These forests are dominated
by bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), chinkapin oak (Q. muehlenbergii), and
hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) [8].  Black-capped chickadees also occur
on adjacent prairie dominated by big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii),
little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), switchgrass (Panicum
virgatum), and indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans).  The presence of
black-capped chickadees in grassland habitat was attributed to the
availability of isolated tree and shrub patches along ravines [8].

In Illinois black-capped chickadees were recorded in northern red oak
(Q. rubra)-sugar maple (Acer saccharum)-hackberry dominated woodlands [35].


REFERENCES : 
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Related categories for Wildlife Species: Parus atricapillus | Black-Capped Chickadee