Mountain chickadee
Poecile gambeli
Identification Tips:
- Length: 4.25 inches
- Short bill
- Black crown and throat
- White supercilium
- White face
- Gray upperparts
- Grayish-white underparts
- Gray flanks
- Sexes similar
- Often found in small flocks
Similar species:
Other chickadees lack a white supercilium. Bridled Titmouse has a crest.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.