Tits and Chickadees (Paridae)
Mexican Chickadee (Poecile sclateri) - HBW 12, p. 715
French: Mésange grise
German: Grauflankenmeise
Spanish: Carbonero Mexicano
Other common names: Grey-sided Chickadee
Taxonomy: P[arus] sclateri O. Kleinschmidt, 1897, El Jacale, southern Mexico.
Until recently present genus normally subsumed into a broad Parus, and many authors still prefer that treatment. Genus normally treated as feminine, but no evidence in original description or elsewhere justifies this, so genus is masculine by default. Has been placed in a superspecies with P. gambeli, sometimes including also P. montanus, P. carolinensis and P. atricapillus; DNA analysis, however, suggests closer relationship to P. hudsonicus and P. rufescens; further research required. Geographical variation largely clinal, size decreasing from.. View all taxonomy...
Until recently present genus normally subsumed into a broad Parus, and many authors still prefer that treatment. Genus normally treated as feminine, but no evidence in original description or elsewhere justifies this, so genus is masculine by default. Has been placed in a superspecies with P. gambeli, sometimes including also P. montanus, P. carolinensis and P. atricapillus; DNA analysis, however, suggests closer relationship to P. hudsonicus and P. rufescens; further research required. Geographical variation largely clinal, size decreasing from N to S; races poorly defined, and intergrade widely. Species possibly better treated as monotypic, as differences among populations slight and perhaps not sufficiently constant to warrant naming of races. Four subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- eidos (J. L. Peters, 1927) - extreme S USA (SE Arizona, SW New Mexico) and N Mexico (N & C Sierra Madre).
- sclateri (O. Kleinschmidt, 1897) - C Mexico (C & S Sierra Madre).
- garzai (A. R. Phillips, 1986) - NE Mexico.
- rayi (A. H. Miller & Storer, 1950) - S Mexico.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a pine tree calling, preening, stretching the wings and flyng away. Locality La Cumbre, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern) (ssp rayi)
Josep del Hoyo 17 April 2009 2 years ago 48 sec 3.3 -
A bird in a pine tree calling and preening. Locality La Cumbre, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern) (ssp rayi)
Josep del Hoyo 17 April 2009 2 years ago 35 sec 3.3
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a bird perching
Locality Portal, Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA (United States) (ssp eidos (J. L. Peters, 1927))
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 1 May 2007 2 years ago 3.5
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A bird singing.
Locality La Cumbre, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern)
(ssp rayi)
Josep del Hoyo 17 April 2009 2 years ago 3
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