#1291 · 🐦 birds

Carolina Chickadee

🇳🇱 Carolinamees ·Poecile carolinensis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The Carolina chickadee ( Poecile carolinensis ) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is often placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships (Gill et al. , 2005). The American Ornithologists' Union has been treating Poecile as distinct genus for some time already.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 73,589iNaturalist observations
weight 1 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
73,589 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 1 g.
Scientifically named by John James Audubon in 1834 (192 years ago).