Gray-headed Chickadee

Poecile cinctus

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About the Gray-headed Chickadee

The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit (Poecile cinctus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout subarctic Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic, and also into North America in Alaska and the far northwest of Canada. It is a conifer specialist. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate. It is a fairly large tit, at 12.5–14 cm long and with a weight of 11–14.3 g intermediate between willow tit and great tit. The head is dark brown (darkest on the throat and eyestripe, the crown slightly paler) with white cheeks, the mantle cinnamon-brown, the wing feathers blackish with pale fringes, and the underparts whitish with pale rusty-brown flanks.

Source: Wikipedia

Classification

Scientific name: Poecile cinctus
Family: Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
Order: Passeriformes

Similar species

Other members of the tits, chickadees, and titmice family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.

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