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Mountain Chickadee

Poecile gambeli
MOCH · Paridae · Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
Forest provisional · from avonet
1heard

The mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.

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mean confidence
8–9 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Mountain Chickadee
Peter WallackCC BY-SA 3.0
1Detections
1Days heard
0.51Mean confidence
17 SepFirst heard
17 SepLast heard
2,584Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

Not enough history A seasonal chart needs a year of records. This shows daily counts until then.

Where heard

At home1 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-09-17 14:38
9 s
0.51
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 10:15am Archive