Mexican Chickadee

Mexican Chickadee

Mexican Chickadee: Small chickadee with gray upperparts, sides, and undertail coverts, black cap and bib, white cheeks, and white lower breast and belly. Wings and tail are gray. Legs and feet are gray-black. The only chickadee found in Mexico, and is vulnerable to diminishing habitat.

● Song: "chischu-wur", "cheelee", "chick-a-dee-dee-dee", "chi-pi-tit"

● Foraging & Feeding: Mexican Chickadee: Eats insects, spiders, arthropod egg cases, and seeds from conifers and other plants; clings under branches or pinecones when foraging, or gleans trunks, branches, and foliage.

● Breeding & nesting: Mexican Chickadee: Five to eight white eggs with red-brown spots are laid in a nest made of fine grass, bark strips, moss, and plant down, lined with animal fur, and built from 5 to 45 feet above the ground in a snag or tree. Incubation ranges from 11 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Mexican Chickadee: Mountain Chickadee has white eyebrow. Black-capped Chickadee has pale olive-brown wash on sides, flanks, and undertail coverts, smaller black bib (does not reach breast), and has more white edging on wing feathers.

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