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Mountain Chickadee
Poecile gambeli · Family Paridae
Poecile gambeli
Family Paridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,432,280
- Countries and territories with records
- 4
About this species
This species has 1,432,280 occurrence records from 4 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (89.6%) and Canada (10.3%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Poecile gambeli combines the genus name Poecile with the species epithet gambeli. The Warbla app catalog lists 15 species of the genus Poecile; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Poecile atricapillus, Poecile carolinensis and Poecile rufescens.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 61 species of the family Paridae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Poecile atricapillus. Its record count is close to the family average (1,310,770). The family Paridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.