Species
Poecile gambeli (Mountain chickadee)
Poecile gambeli. Photo: (c) gonebirdin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Often, it is still placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds’ relationships. The American Ornithologists’ Union has been treating Poecile as a distinct genus for some time.
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