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Siberian Tit
Sign in to saveAlso known as gray-headed chickadee, grey-headed chickadee, Poecile cincta, Poecile cinctus
species of bird
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- species
- taxon name
- Poecile cinctus
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- Poecile cinctus
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- short name
- P. cinctus
- taxon common name
- sibirska sjenica
- taxon author citation
- (Boddaert, 1783)
- regional conservation status
- Near Threatened
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siberian Tit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.