Toponymie | Canton de Potton | Place Names

In English, this would be Chickadee road. The Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, North American songbird, a passerine in the tit family Paridae. They hardly need introduction!  It is the provincial bird of New Brunswick.  The chickadee is notable for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, for its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and for its boldness near humans, where they will often feed from a steady hand.  Of course, they seem to love suet and black sunflower seeds.  Few are they who do not like the tweeting of the chickadee in the dead of winter or its “ sw-eeeet phe-beeee » in the early spring.  Its name in French is mésange à  tête noire.