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Priorities for Future Research
While the Black-capped Chickadee has served as a model system and we have many long-term study populations, there are still many avenues that remain to be explored. Variation in size and detailed spectrographic measurements of plumage characteristics among subspecies (controlling for age and sex) are needed to confirm subspecific differences. Additionally, an analysis of long-term and regional variation in laying date, reproductive success, and survivorship could be revealing. Juvenile dispersal and flock formation in early fall are perhaps the least studied behaviors and warrant future work.
Foote, Jennifer R., Daniel J. Mennill, Laurene M. Ratcliffe and Susan M. Smith. 2010. Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/039
