Picking a pet name is serious business — regardless of if it's a pet bird, cat, dog, or other animal. Your family might hold a vote to select the name of your new crew member, or you might brainstorm ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...