Mexican chickadee Poecile sclateri

Identification Tips:

• Length: 4.25 inches
• Short bill
• Black crown and throat
• White face
• Gray upperparts
• Grayish-white underparts
• Gray flanks
• Sexes similar
• Often found in small flocks
• United States range restricted to southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

Similar species:

The Mexican Chickadee is similar to the Mountain Chickadee but lacks a white supercilium. Other chickadees lack the gray flanks of the Mexican Chickadee.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.