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title: "Mountain Chickadee"
description: "Poecile gambeli — Vogels. The mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/mountain-chickadee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mountain Chickadee

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

- Scientific name: *Poecile gambeli*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `mountains` (Bergen)
- iNaturalist observations: 19322
- Wikidata: [Q973320](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q973320)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144816](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144816)

## Names

- en: Mountain Chickadee
- de: Gambelmeise
- es: Carbonero Cejas Blancas
- fr: Mésange de Gambel
- pl: Sikora górska

## Countries with the most observations

US (16045), CA (1990), MX (82)

## Summary

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

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_chickadee

## Photo

![Mountain Chickadee](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mountain-chickadee/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/388891016

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mountain-chickadee?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).