#1225 · 🐦 birds

Siberian Tit

🇳🇱 Bruinkopmees ·Poecile cinctus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

The grey-headed chickadee or Siberian tit ( Poecile cinctus , formerly Parus cinctus ) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout subarctic Scandinavia and northern Asia, 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. Curiously (with respect to its name), the bird has no grey on its head, which is black,...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 848iNaturalist observations
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.
848 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pieter Boddaert in 1783 (243 years ago).