About the Mexican Chickadee
The Mexican chickadee is a small passerine songbird in the family Paridae, the tits and chickadees. It is found in Mexico and the U. S. states of Arizona and New Mexico.
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The Mexican chickadee is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weighs 9 to 12 g (0.32 to 0.42 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a black head from the level of the eyes up and a black hindneck, both with a faint bluish gloss. The have pure black cheeks, chin, throat, and upper breast, and the rest of their face is white. The black on the chin and throat is conspicuously more extensive than on other chickadees, stretching onto the upper breast. Their back, scapulars, rump, and uppertail coverts are deep olive gray or mouse gray, with the strongest olive on the rump. Voice: The Mexican chickadee's song is "a series of short abrupt phrases peeta peeta peeta". Its principal calls are "a high buzzy sschleeeer" and "a high, buzzy, and hissing tzee tzee shhh shhh".
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What the Mexican Chickadee sounds like
Where the Mexican Chickadee lives
When to see the Mexican Chickadee
Peak activity in August · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Sombre TitPoecile lugubrisThe sombre tit is slightly smaller than a great tit (Parus major) with similar proportions, although in plumage it most resembles a willow tit (Poecile montanus) but it has a brownish to grey-black cap which extends further into the sides of the head with the off-white cheek patch being restricted to a narrow triangle by the larger bib.
Grey-headed ChickadeePoecile cinctusThe grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.
Sichuan TitPoecile weigoldicusThe Sichuan tit is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae.
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