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State Bird of Massachusetts
By USGS
Sep 7, 2006, 14:43 PST
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| Photo of Mexican Chickadee by Bill Schmoker - Rustler Park, Arizona, 7/03 |
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.
Source: USGS
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