The most boring choice won. Typical Calgary. Enjoy your cute, dumb little bird.
It's silly that this was even a thing to begin with, but since we were asked, we answered. I disagree that the chickadee is a boring choice. Of all the calls, the chickadee is the most pleasant. Chickadees wont attack your dog, and if they sing song early on a weekend, it's way f'ing better than a magpie's.
Magpies literally sound like they're saying "bitch bitch bitch". Though I concede that most birds (chickadee included) have a caw when there's danger present.
I'm sure that when the other important poll comes comes out, that being "What is the most annoying bird in Calgary", magpie will be on that list, and they have a good chance of winning, since Canada geese at least FO for winter. Let Edmonton have their magpies, while we bask in the relaxing song of the chickadee.
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It's silly that this was even a thing to begin with, but since we were asked, we answered. I disagree that the chickadee is a boring choice. Of all the calls, the chickadee is the most pleasant. Chickadees wont attack your dog, and if they sing song early on a weekend, it's way f'ing better than a magpie's.
Magpies literally sound like they're saying "bitch bitch bitch". Though I concede that most birds (chickadee included) have a caw when there's danger present.
I'm sure that when the other important poll comes comes out, that being "What is the most annoying bird in Calgary", magpie will be on that list, and they have a good chance of winning, since Canada geese at least FO for winter. Let Edmonton have their magpies, while we bask in the relaxing song of the chickadee.
Chickadees are too dumb and tiny to attack anything that isn't a berry. I like my wildlife wild. I've never had a Magpie attack a pet because I respect them and their territory.
If I knew Edmonton already chose the Magpie I wouldn't have campaigned for it to win. Actually I'd like to see a bird of prey as city bird. Something badass instead of the darling of the suburbs we got.
If you want a songbird to win I'd suggest the Northern Shrike. I think it was already mentioned but it is an awesome bird.
So you basically want the Dodge Ram as the Official Calgary vehicle, even though the Golf is superior in almost all ways. Gotcha.
What? I don’t get the analogy at all. The Dodge Ram might as well be the official vehicle of the suburbs. It’s annoying but a dumb choice for most people. Try again.
Birds are dinosaurs, and the more they resemble their ancestors the better. Chickadees are the purse dogs of birds.
Agreed. I can not believe people took it so seriously as to actually whine about magpies and their "bitch bitch bitch" when they could vote for "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" or "fee-faw...fee-faw". If baseball has taught me anything, it's that the most unassuming of birds can kick ass when least expected.
For some unknown reason chickadees have begun changing their song after millennia of the same dee-dee-dee. The phenomenon was first discovered in Ontario then noticed in BC and now seems to be spreading to other locations. A baffling mystery!
Like many other species in the family Paridae, black-capped chickadees commonly cache food, mostly seeds, but sometimes insects, also.[23] Items are stored singly in various sites such as bark, dead leaves, clusters of conifer needles, or knothole. Memory for the location of caches can last up to 28 days.[24] Within the first 24 hours, the birds can even remember the relative quality of the stored items.[25]
