Date: 6/2/25 4:27 pm From: Ethan Whitney Smith via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Black-capped chickadee behavior question
I have plenty of guesses about what I witnessed, but no educated ones. I saw two black-capped chickadees flutter to the ground in my back garden. One was immature and the other an adult. The adult was pushing on and pecking at the immature. The immature chickadee lowered its head and rapidly flapped its wings. The adult pecked at the immature chickadee's head repeatedly until the immature was dead. The whole thing took maybe 15-20 seconds. Anyone have an educated guess about why this happened?
