Chickadee

Chickadees, tits and nutcrakers are among the species of birds that store food in cache sites. Some of these birds have been observed to use up to 80,000 different cache locations in a single fall season. Seeds, decapitated insects, or bits of worms are stored in a wide variety of locations, such as under tufts of dirt on the ground, underneath the bark of trees, and inside hollow plant stems. Cache sites can be either right on the ground or high above it, and birds can cache food either very close to where it was found or at distances up to about 100 meters way. Most cache food is recovered and consumed within a few days of storage, but some morsels are known to have been hidden away for some months before being retrieved. ~ Page 110