Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- Genus
- Poecile
- eBird Code
- bkcchi
Subspecies (9)
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Poecile atricapillus atricapillus
eastern Canada and northeastern USA
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Poecile atricapillus bartletti
Newfoundland and Miquelon
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Poecile atricapillus fortuitus
southern interior British Columbia to northwestern Montana and northwestern Idaho
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Poecile atricapillus garrinus
Rocky Mountains (southeastern Idaho to Wyoming, eastern Utah, and New Mexico)
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Poecile atricapillus nevadensis
Great Basin of southwestern USA (eastern Oregon to Idaho, Nevada, and western Utah)
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Poecile atricapillus occidentalis
far southwestern British Columbia to northwestern California (west of Cascades)
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Poecile atricapillus practicus
northeastern USA (Appalachian Mountains region)
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Poecile atricapillus septentrionalis
western Canada and central USA
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Poecile atricapillus turneri
Alaska and adjacent northwestern Canada
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.