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Carolina Chickadee This little watercolor has a touch of pastel pencil to enhance the uppermost branch and background, imparting an almost fuzzy appearance atop the watercolor. The Carolina Chickadee, Poecile carolinensis, is a small songbird that ranges from New Jersey west to southern Kansas and south to Florida and Texas. At high altitudes in the Appalachian Mountains, their more northern relative, the Black-capped Chickadee, replaces these birds. Like Black-capped Chickadees, Carolinas have a black cap, black bib, gray wings and back, and whitish underside but their wings are slightly browner with the greater coverts brown (not whitish fringed), the white fringing on the secondary feathers is also slightly less conspicuous, and the tail is shorter and more square-ended. Carolina and Black-capped chickadees hybridize in the area where their ranges overlap, but the two species probably diverged more than 250,000 years ago. The original watercolor and pastel pencil, presented in a 1" wide oak stressed-wood frame (double matted in acid-free tan on black to an outer dimension of 10.5" x 12.5"), is available for $375.00. Limited edition prints and note cards are also available. Click here for availability and price.