Mountain Chickadee

Weight

11.1 g – 11.7 g

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

10.1 years

Diet

Invertivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forest

Egg incubation

14 days

Young per litter or clutch

7.03

Age at maturity

12 months

Litters or clutches a year

1.5

Lifestyle

Perching

Migration

Sedentary

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderPasseriformes
5. familyParidae
6. genusPoecile
7. SpeciesPoecile gambeli (Ridgway, 1886)

Synonyms Parus gambeli, Penthestes gambeli

Catalogue of Life

LC, Least Concern

Marsh tit

Poecile palustris

Paridae

W

Willow tit

Poecile montanus

ParidaeNo free photo yet

S

Sombre tit

Poecile lugubris

ParidaeNo free photo yet

A

Alaska Chickadee

Poecile cinctus

ParidaeNo free photo yet

N

Northern Chickadee

Poecile atricapillus

ParidaeNo free photo yet

P

Pere David's tit

Poecile davidi

ParidaeNo free photo yet

CompareMountain Chickadee vs Marsh titMountain Chickadee vs Willow titMountain Chickadee vs Sombre titMountain Chickadee vs Alaska Chickadee

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@misc{mountain_chickadee_2026,
  title = {Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mountain-chickadee},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}