What is "chickadees"

Usage examples of "chickadees".

He never prayed, so to speak, or went with his family to church, but he had a kind of awe for what was alive, a respect for everything from horses to chickadees that amounted to the sort of general all-around respect for the worfd and its creatures that others might take for a belief in God.

As she had been in the spring, Hannah became her teacher once again, pointing out the flocks of robins and chickadees gorging in preparation for their flight south, half-built muskrat shelters woven with cattails and bulrushes, a red-bellied snake working its way into an abandoned anthill where it would sleep through the cold.

Sparrows and chickadees darted to and fro, feeding on seed left on the statue's outstretched hand.