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Colorado’s chickadees may lose their good memory to adapt to climate change, researchers find

- By Michael Booth The Colorado Sun
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A mountain chickadee eats seeds from an auto feeder after landing on the perch that matches its radio tag and opens the feed door. (Nicholas Goda, via University of Colorado Boulder)

Mountain chickadee, a common (and tiny) Colorado forager. (Robert Taylor, via University of Colorado Boulder)

One of the feeding arrays set up at CU Boulder’s mountain research station (Yvaine Ye, CU Boulder)

If you’re hungry in the mountains and can’t remember where that little place is that has the special plate with the thing overlooking that view, follow a chickadee.

New research from the University of Colorado and colleagues has tightened a claw around the sets of genes that make mountain chickadees some of the most remarkable return-navigators in nature. They remember where the seeds are.

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