#1374 · 🐦 birds
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
🇳🇱 Bruinrugmees ·Poecile rufescens
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what is it?
The chestnut-backed chickadee ( Poecile rufescens , formerly Parus rufescens ) is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae.
base stats
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.
- 29,525 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Nederlands
- Bruinrugmees
- scientific name
- Poecile rufescens
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Paridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 29,525
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Paridae
#0552 📷 9Great Tit
🇳🇱 Koolmees
Parus major
LC 👀 2.9k in NL
#0557 📷 9Eurasian Blue Tit
🇳🇱 Pimpelmees
Cyanistes caeruleus
LC 👀 2.4k in NL
#0690 📷 10Marsh Tit
🇳🇱 Glanskop
Poecile palustris
LC 👀 178 in NL
#0691 📷 9Crested Tit
🇳🇱 Kuifmees
Lophophanes cristatus
LC 👀 175 in NL
#0725 📷 10Coal Tit
🇳🇱 Zwarte mees
Periparus ater
LC 👀 93 in NL
#0768 📷 10Willow Tit
🇳🇱 Matkop
Poecile montanus
LC 👀 39 in NL
#1000 📷 8Azure Tit
🇳🇱 Azuurmees
Cyanistes cyanus
LC 👀 1 in NL
#1262 📷 10Black-capped Chickadee
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Matkop
Poecile atricapillus
LC 🌍 170.4k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 144820, Wikidata Q945114, GBIF 2487783, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.